Linda Beckett

런던에 사는 젊고 지적인 흑인 여성 호텐스는 양어머니의 장례식 이후, 자신의 생모를 찾고 싶어진다. 자신의 입양기록을 보게 된 호텐스는 자신의 친어머니가 흑인이 아닌 백인임을 알고 혼란스러움을 느끼지만 용기를 내어 전화를 건다. 한편, 공장 노동자로 가슴 속에 한과 미련을 품고 살아가는 그녀의 생모 신시아는 딸 록산느와 사이가 좋지 않고 그녀의 삶엔 오로지 한숨뿐이다. 남자들은 모두 그녀를 떠나갔으며 자신을 희생하면서 어렵게 키운 남동생 모리스 마저도 연락을 자주 하지 않는다. 마침내 호텐스와 신시아 모녀의 만남도 이루어지고, 갑작스런 모리스의 제안으로 마련된 록산느의 생일파티에서 가족 모두가 조우하게 되는데...

런던의 셰릴과 사이릴은 행복한 노동자 커플처럼 보인다. 그들의 창백한 이웃들과 함께 중간 계급으로 보이는 나이 탓인지 건망증이 심한 사이릴의 엄마, 그리고 허영심 많은 사이릴의 여동생과 그녀의 남편이 함께 살고 있다. 셰릴은 아이를 원하지만 사이릴은 그렇지가 않다. 자주 열쇠를 두고 밖에서 문을 잠그는 엄마와 놀기 좋아하는 여동생 발레리와 그녀의 남편을 돌보는 것만으로도 끔직하기 때문이다.

These three semi-autobiographical short films by Terence Davies follow the journey of Robert Tucker, first seen as a hangdog child in "Children" (1976), then as a hollow-eyed middle-aged man in "Madonna and Child" (1980), and finally as a decrepit old man in "Death and Transfiguration" (1983). Dreamlike and profoundly moving.

"When you get to a man in the case, they're like as a row of pins - For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady are sisters under their skins." - Kipling. Polly writes for a magazine producing glamorous makeovers for young women. Befriending a member of the women's movement prompts her to re-examine her own feminist values.

Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.

Three boys watch horror films on late night TV and let their imaginations run wild seeing a man in a local cemetery who they believe to be a vampire.

Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for a play he is writing with her in mind. As they discuss the play, Martin discovers that a businessman and an escort named Carol are sat at a nearby table and appear to be speaking lines from the as yet unwritten piece. Martin becomes anxious at what will eventually become of the girl, already knowing that the play will not have a happy resolution

Robert Tucker, a young gay man who is almost without affect, sits in various waiting rooms. As he sits, he recalls events from the year of his childhood when his father dies. He's ten or eleven that year, picked on by bullies at the Catholic school he attends. He seems friendless. At home, his mother is quiet, his father is ill and angry. After his father's death, there's a wake, the coffin arrives, the body is removed. The lad grieves, alone.

A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate.