"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
Jean MacLeod
Jim McLeod
John McLeod
Willy McLeod
Hughie McLeod
Moira MacLeod
Big Bessie
Pluke
Det Sgt Brady
Det Con Newman
Sister Patricia
Big Lick
Bobby Cannon
Mrs. Cannon
Panel chairwoman
Panel member
Ward sister
Policeman