Ken Loach directs Crissy Rock, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 1994 Berlin International Film Festival, in this powerful and painful portrait of Maggie, a woman and mother of the working class in the 80s English backgrund. Her life has always been a struggle between misery and harshness, she had four children from four different men and takes care of them by singing in pubs; she has a violent temper but in her own way she loves her children very much. When her children are taken from social services, she will start a battle to get them back, only the meeting with a Paraguayan political refugee will give her a hope of happiness