The personnel of the Inspection Shop of an aircraft engine plant and the mutations of the personal lives outside the plant affecting their work in the plant; Edward, whose hobby is raising rabbits, in charge of Sheila, having her first affair, Dinah, well adjusted and dependable, Paddy, always unhappy, Maddy who loses her boy, Ivy delighting in making trouble, Kitty, her marriage and baby, Rennie and her sexy gestures, Wendy and her defencelessness, Grace, Freda. To each, with their problems of living and loving, comes some climax, that in turn is reflected in their jobs at the plant. A warntened picture of wartime living in England, among the workers.