Slice-of-life consider a pleasant working-class couple in London, Shirley and Cyril, his mommy, who's maturing swiftly and becoming absent-minded, mum's dreadful upper-middle-class next-door neighbors, and also Cyril's pretentious sibling and philandering spouse. Shirley desires a child, yet Cyril, that reviews Marx and also desires the world to be best, hesitates. Cyril's mum locks herself out and need to ask her snooty next-door neighbors for help. After that Cyril's sibling Valerie stages a surprise celebration for mum's 70th birthday celebration, a catastrophe from start to finish. Shirley holds things together, and she as well as Cyril might deposit her Dutch cap besides.