Description: The opening colour shot shows a portrait of 6 elderly people facing the camera from a sofa, as guitar music plays extra-diegetically. The film consists of talking head interviews, cut between intertitle cards, and freeze-frames of the interview sequences, framed by a TV in black and white, the only black and white sequences within the colour film. The first interview is with Ray Fifer who is in her 70s and is caring for her sister who is also in her 70s. She mentions how she is pressured without government social security financial assistance as a divorcee as her ex-husband has stopped paying her maintenance.

The next interview is with Florence Cowley who is in her 90s and lives at home. She says she has worked from 12 years old until she was 74, which makes her bitter as she has never drawn one penny from National Health or unemployment benefits, yet she is offered little assistance with her current rent. Leila Connell, the interviewee in the next sequence, says her ceiling collapsed on her pillow. The video shows the scene, rubble on the floor and on her pillow.

In the next interviews, we hear from Lilian Excell, a retired nurse, criticising the hospital for sending her ill friend back home despite the fact that she was clearly too unwell to live alone. Thelma Guyatt moved to a private care home after her stroke, as she lives alone and has deaf neighbours. However, she desires to find her own council flat, as she prefers her independence. Dudley Haynes, an elderly man, who lives at home by himself, is visited daily by a district nurse; he notes it is much nicer being in your own place rather than in a group home. 90-year-old Miss Golightly lives alone with her niece who is in her 80s, and mentions how she still cooks for herself.

The next section shows an elderly woman Eileen Chancellor who mentions how she is lucky that she is still healthy, and mentions how there should be more local community centres. Ray Fifer also comments on how there should be more community events to bring older and younger people into conversation, and to learn about each other’s history. We see a little scene of a Christmas party with the elders. Ray also adds how older people need more nurses and others to come in for a chat. Another woman mentions how her knees locked one day and she went to the doctors and they offered no help.

The latter part of the film shows a graffiti sign that reads Hope For Pensioners against a Post Office building. We hear various interviewees recount how they need more financial support as pensioners and to improve living conditions. They are critical of the private rental system which provides little support for the elderly. Many of the older interviewees would prefer to live alone, in a home of their own, and discuss ways that they could make it possible – from being supplied with a phone, or having an emergency buzzer installed.