Having cut his teeth on Television, Ken Loach's first movie combines documentary, fly-on-the-wall, and 'confessional' styles, to tell the story of a young working class mum. She does her best to get by and dotes on her little boy Johnny. She simply does what she can, and tries to enjoy life, such as it is. There's an un-assuming and gentle quality to this story. The simple telling of a very ordinary life in the mid to late sixties, and in many ways, a timeless story of what any life is made of.