 This four-part made-for-TV drama focuses up close on a Dublin couple with four children. Charlo is a hustler, a head-first footballer, a thief, abusive. Paula drinks, objects to Charlie s thievery and adultery without the will to chuck him out. John Paul worships his father who s initiating him into the world of beer and football but recoils at Charlo s treatment of mom; asthma and misbehavior at school follow. Daughter Nicola is a young woman, starting work in a garment factory. When Charlo begins to stare at her, she s frightened and Paula s furious.