A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement.

When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side.

Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship.

Eunice searches for Judith, her love, at highway gas stations. Her dangerous behaviour frightens cashiers. Miriam, a hard-of-hearing woman, befriends her and joins the search, trying to reform Eunice but falling into darkness herself.

A Pakistani immigrant works illegally in 1960s England, sharing cramped housing while sending money home. Movies offer escape as he faces deportation fears, a smuggler's threats, and his landlord's girlfriend's arrival.

A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism.

Glaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother Bobby.