Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
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A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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Summer 1994: Christian grows up under the violent hand of his father. When his mother dies, his aunt...
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La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her confli...
Two poor farmers spend all their money on a chicken, while waiting for her first egg they slowly sta...
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