Ladene Hall

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only saving being her self-belief and certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit.

Shirley tiene una hija de doce años, fruto de su relación con Jimmy, un delincuente que desapareció sin dejar rastro. Dek, un hombre decente pero con poco carácter, ama tanto a Shirley que llega a proponerle matrimonio a través de un concurso televisivo. Jimmy, que ha visto el programa, convencido de que Dek es un perdedor, regresa a su pueblo para recuperar el amor de Shirley.

Felicia es una adolescente que ha vivido siempre en una aldea irlandesa. Cuando su novio Johnny emigra a Inglaterra para buscar trabajo, Felicia lo sigue, sobre todo porque está embarazada. Cuando llega a Birmingham conoce a Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, el meticuloso gerente de una empresa de comidas.

Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.