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
Carol White in films such as "Carry on Teacher" (1959) and "Never Let Go" (1960) in which she played the girlfriend of Peter Sellers. She continued working regularly, and drew attention for her performances in the television version of Nell Dunn's "Up the Junction" (1965). She followed this success with roles in "Cathy Come Home" (1966) and the films "Poor Cow" (1967), based on another Nell Dunn book, and "I'll Never Forget What's'isname" (1967). "Up the Junction", "Cathy Come Home" and "Poor Cow" were all directed by Ken Loach. White starred opposite Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm in the film