A rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child.
A young man is accused of getting a girl pregnant. Two sets of parents tussle and then they find out who really got her pregnant.
On their father's death, Eli and Nellie Pledge inherit a pickle factory in Colne, in the north of England. The warring siblings struggle to keep the decrepit "Pledge's Purer Pickles" afloat...