A dispatch rider deals with the complicated problems of his family, as his elderly mother grows increasingly forgetful and is neglected by his sexually unfulfilled sister. Meanwhile, his girlfriend tries to persuade him to have children - a responsibility he cannot face. Mike Leigh's comedy drama, starring Philip Davis and Ruth Sheen.

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, and the advent of Cyril's ageing mother's seventieth birthday.