Cathy Come Home (played by Carol White) and Reg (Ray Brooks), and their descent into poverty and homelessness. At the start of the film, Cathy leaves her parents' overcrowded rural home and hitchhikes to the city, where she finds work and meets Reg, a well-paid lorry driver. They fall in love, marry, and rent a modern flat in a building that does not allow children. Cathy soon becomes pregnant and must stop working, and Reg is injured on the job and becomes unemployed. The loss of income and birth of the baby force them to leave their flat, and they are unable to
Ken Loach capital punishment, and was broadcast at a time when the debate was at a height in the United Kingdom. "Up the Junction", adapted by Nell Dunn from her book with the assistance of Loach, deals with an illegal abortion while the leading characters in "Cathy Come Home", by Jeremy Sandford, are affected by homelessness, unemployment, and the workings of Social Services. "In Two Minds", written by David Mercer, concerns a young schizophrenic woman's experiences of the mental health system. Tony Garnett began to work as his producer in this period, a professional connection which would last until the end of