A Home Like Ours ...
A Story of Four Children
' I don't know who my mummy is and I don't know where she lives - why did she go away from me? ' asks eight-year-old Eva who was abandoned as a baby. Her nine-year-old brother still finds the past too painful to talk about.
Eight-year-old Gary feels it must be his fault that he is not with his mother like his brothers and sisters. Five-year-old Peter, withdrawn from nursery school for disruptive behaviour, developed his own private language and cannot make himself understood.
These are normal children subjected to abnormal stresses at a critical stage in their early life. This film observes their daily life in a specialist home where they can begin to develop normally. It explores the relationship between abnormal delinquent behaviour and emotional disturbance in childhood.
Narrator PAUL DANEMAN
Compelling study ... (SUNDAY TIMES) Editor PETER GOODCHILD
Written and produced by MICHAEL BARNES