Andrew Boulton

Shanghai, 1937. Una bella misionera y un aventurero van tras la pista de un cargamento de opio desaparecido para utilizarlo con fines medicinales. Para conseguir su objetivo, los dos jóvenes tienen que enfrentarse a toda una serie de personajes de los bajos fondos que buscan el alijo.

A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed.

A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory.

A boy goes to see his probation officer.

A man relentlessly bombards another man with small talk, while the other man tries to fend for himself while using crutches.

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family.

Nick, de diecisiete años, no consigue encontrar trabajo. Se le ocurre entonces alistarse en el ejército, pero sus padres se oponen radicalmente. Mientras tanto empieza a salir con la dependienta de una zapatería.

Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question of Leadership, intended for national ITV broadcast, was criticised by the Independent Broadcasting Authority for its explicitly anti-government stance. It was eventually screened a year later, exclusively in the Midlands (tx. 13/8/1981). Believing that the then-new Channel 4 would be more amenable to politicised documentaries, Loach proposed the four-part Questions of Leadership (1983), a wider-ranging study of the trade union movement - but on viewing the completed programmes' strong criticism of leading trade unionists, an anxious Channel 4 shortened the series to two parts and proposed screening a 'balancing' documentary by a different filmmaker, before scrapping the broadcast altogether.

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.