Adult brothers Mark and Colin Pollock still live with their parents Frank and Mavis Pollock in a small apartment in the projects of London's east end in what is a collective depressed and unhappy existence. The three men of the household are all on the dole, each doing little to find gainful employment. Between the brothers, Mark is the smart aleck, who calls his parents by their given names to irk them, and who hangs out with a bunch of hooligans as he refers to himself and his friends, such as a skinhead named Coxy. Although never medically diagnosed as such, Colin is seemingly emotionally slow. Colin likes to hang out with Mark and his friends in his want to be accepted, especially as Mark tells him that a neighborhood girl named Hayley is interested him. The family rarely socializes with Mavis' sister and brother-in-law, Barbara and John, who live a middle to upper middle class and seemingly perfect existence in the suburbs of Chigwell. Although not telling them to their face, John dislikes his relations by marriage, believing especially Mark to be brash and trashy. A unilateral act by Barbara leads to many issues within the extended family coming to the surface, most specifically the true happiness of the marriage between Barbara and John, and what Colin is truly looking for to be happy in life.
丟了工作不是誰的錯,What are you doing on Monday? Nothing. What about Tuesday? Nothing. 昨天明天今天同樣沒有希望,金錢本身沒有價值,不過是反映生活的現實,剛好每個人都需要。擁有房子,窗戶偏不能打開;有多餘的房間,還是沒勇氣生孩子;有了工作,卻有更多生活暴劫緊接而來;有了婚姻,兩人之間亦會愈走愈遠。家庭成員互相的指責和埋怨,愈放肆的指罵愈見內心的抑壓,是社會是時代,讓最平凡的人過著最不安的日子。離開是唯一的出路。