
"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.

as Jean MacLeod

as Jim McLeod

as John McLeod

as Willy McLeod

as Hughie McLeod

as Moira MacLeod

as Big Bessie

as Pluke

as Det Sgt Brady

as Det Con Newman

as Sister Patricia

as Big Lick

as Bobby Cannon

as Mrs. Cannon

as Panel chairwoman

as Panel member

as Ward sister

as Policeman