A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father. This unrelieved melodrama examines the nature of a child's experience of a domineering, volatile alcoholic parent. It is based on an autobiographical account by Carol-Ann Courtney. At first, the girl has some diversion from her intense and frightening relationship with her father in the person of her maternal grandmother, but that outlet is soon closed when her father bans her from their home.
Patrick Bergin
as Terence O'Farrell
Joanna Griffiths
as Caroline O'Farrell
Sue Jones-Davies
as Irene O'Farrell
Sue Roderick
as Ruby
Gwenllian Davies
as Gran
Sian Merrick
as Miss Bowden
