During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.

In industrialised 1930s North-West England the Hardcastle family along with the rest of the village struggles to make ends meet. Son Harry has some luck on the horses, which helps for a while, but as the Depression deepens neither he nor his father can find work. When Harry leaves home to be with his pregnant girlfriend, pressure mounts on his attractive sister Sally to solve the family's problems as best she can.—J-26