Schoolmistress
両親の離婚により伯母夫婦によって育てられたジョン。ジョンは厳しくも我が子同然に愛情を注いでくれる伯母と、複雑な事情で手放したものの息子を気遣い音楽への興味を誘ってくれた実母の間で葛藤する。二人の母の愛に支えられながら、音楽に自分の道を見出していく若き日のジョン・レノンの姿を描く。
Joy
Thirty-something single father Mike meets attractive younger Christine at a dance lesson. She likes him as much as he likes her. But are things too good to be true.
Karen
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but at a civic luncheon, he is seated next to Aileen Armitage, a novelist who is blind. They have a nice time, and on the sly, Diana contacts Aileen to made an odd request. Diana's declining health and her resolve bring this triangle of unlikely friends to a surprising place.
Mrs Cruikshank
A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.
Landlady
長年勤めた職場を追われ、家族も恋人もなく、人生に絶望したアンリは、自殺を試みるもうまくいかず、思い余ってプロの殺し屋“コントラクト・キラー”に自分の殺しを依頼する。が、その直後、アンリは花売り娘のマーガレットと恋に落ちてしまい……。
Angry Mother
Needle paints a harrowing picture of a Liverpool overrun by drugs, charting a young man's nightmarish descent into intravenous heroin use and AIDS and a police and political leadership incapable of the imagination or courage necessary to respond to the drug problem.
Intertwined story of the lives of two women; an Englishwoman suffering abuse from her violent husband, and a Russian poet serving hard labour because of her subversive work.
Eileen
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
