In the late 1930s young Bessie Drew is working in a biscuit factory in Sydney. Her family are not well off, and it feels like arguing is their only way of communicating. Working around her father's violent obstreporousness and her mother's pinched shrewishness, she and her siblings only enter the fray if they can't avoid it, thus further developing the Drew family's specialty of constant nag. Her mother's latest lodger, Maurice Wainwright,...