Driver
Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion. The top-secret operation was known only to a handful of security men and senior bank officials... and a group of Liverpool dockers who handle the move. Billy Mac, the dockers' leader, hatches an ingenious plan to steal some of the gold bars from under the noses of the guards.
Smurph
Steve es un joven nacido en Glasgow que, tras salir de la cárcel, se traslada a Londres donde pretende iniciar una nueva vida trabajando en la construcción. El empleo está mal pagado y no le permite tener un sitio donde vivir, de manera que vaga de un lugar a otro sin encontrar estabilidad. Casualmente, conoce a Susan, una joven que, como él, vive a la deriva intentando darse a conocer como cantante. Juntos compartirán miedos, inquietudes, alegrías e ilusiones. Un drama que, con un toque de humor y romanticismo, logra conmover al espectador.
Quasimodo
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Arthur
Danny Duggan runs a failing building contractors, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to keep the business afloat. However, with the bottom falling out of the building game, Duggan finds that playing at gangster is only fun when you're on the winning side.
Local in Pub
In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.
Coach Driver
When a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.