Slice-of-life consider a sweet working-class couple in London, Shirley and also Cyril, his mother, that's aging swiftly and becoming absent-minded, mum's awful upper-middle-class next-door neighbors, and Cyril's pretentious sis as well as philandering partner. Shirley desires an infant, however Cyril, that checks out Marx and also wants the globe to be best, is reluctant. Cyril's mother locks herself out as well as need to ask her snooty neighbors for aid. After that Cyril's sibling Valerie phases a surprise party for mum's 70th birthday celebration, a calamity throughout. Shirley holds things together, and she and Cyril may put aside her Dutch cap nevertheless.