Soon after buying their house, John's wife left him; with three children to care for, John could not continue working as a self-employed plumber and fell behind with the mortgage payments. Alan and Linda used their house as security to start a small business; when the business collapsed, the bank threatened repossession.
Hundreds of thousands of families in Britain are paying the price of the 1980s boom in house purchases and bank lending. Each week more than
1,000 homes are repossessed. Michael Darlow's intimate record of six months in the lives of two families threatened with repossession gives an insight into the stress and degradation it causes. As filming continues until today, their current situation remains unknown.
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