خلاصه داستان : به خاطر نخواستن میخ، یک کفش گم شد، به خاطر نداشتن یک کفش، زندگی یک مرد جوان تقریباً از دست رفت، این دقیقاً همان چیزی است که این فیلم درباره آن ساخته شده است: داستان مردی تقریباً بیست ساله که به شدت می‌خواهد از دنیای مواد مخدر لندن خودش را خارج کند.

For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.

خلاصه داستان : داستان استیوی ، یک کارگر ساختمانی و دوست دخترش ، خواننده پاپ بیکار ، نشان دهنده شرایط زندگی طبقه فقیر انگلیس است.

Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.