Sister
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?
Fran
Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship.
Nurse
Durante el gobierno de Margaret Thatcher, la mina de carbón de un pueblo del norte de Inglaterra está a punto de ser cerrada. La banda de música de los mineros, toda una institución con más de un siglo de historia, también corre el peligro de desaparecer. A pesar de ello, Danny, el líder de la banda, exhorta a sus compañeros para animarlos a seguir compitiendo en el concurso nacional.
