Susan Jameson

A dying woman in mid-19th century Northumberland entrusts her daughter to the home of her wealthy former lover, inciting resentment from his wife.

11-year-old Terry runs away from home and is drawn into a gang of bullies, in a gritty Children's Film Foundation drama.

Set in the shipbuilding and mining district of Tyneside, northern England, former army sergeant Jack Ford and the Seaton family cope with the aftermath of World War I: the lack of jobs, the great depression of the 1920s, trade union activists and an uncaring society. Ford has had his fill of struggle in the trenches and is now determined to make something of himself in this brave new world.

To prepare her husband for raising their sons without her, a woman with breast cancer spends her final days creating a list of life lessons.