THE place: Glasgow, a city of smoke-grimed buildings and tram cars.
In Dalbeattie Street there’s a tenement close.
Food and other commodities are still on ration but in The Close there are 12 flats occupied by couples and families, mostly friends enjoying each others’ company.
Young Rhea and Robert fall in love but are torn between telling their parents as one is Catholic and one Protestant.
Another young couple, George and his German wife Irma, settle in with no problems.
Though there is poverty, heartbreak and death, there is always room for laughter and harmony.
Brilliantly told story of hard times, that’s moving yet funny.
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