A história de um canalizador da cidade de Boston, nos Estados Unidos, que é forçado a voltar para a cidade de Manchester, no Reino Unido, após descobrir que o seu irmão morreu. Já em terras inglesas, vai ter de tomar conta do sobrinho de 16 anos, mas acaba por lidar com uma tragédia secreta do seu passado.
Josefina está prestes a fazer os votos perpétuos, mas tem de regressar à aldeia onde cresceu para o funeral de seu pai. Aí reencontra o sobrinho, abandonado pela mãe, e é compelida a adoptá-lo. O regresso à casa de família transporta-a para um passado sombrio e para uma realidade de solidão e intimidade. A adolescência do sobrinho e a profunda religiosidade, o perigo de pecado e a ameaça de regresso da irmã, são desafios que terá de enfrentar. Todas as relações humanas não deixam de ser ambíguas e o amor não é fácil de dominar.
Yuen is a music teacher as well as a househusband. He meets, falls in love, and marries an optimistic TV scriptwriter, Ting, in a rush. Unfortunately, before they can adjust to the newlywed life, they suddenly become “parents” of five nephews and nieces. Yuen and Ting move from a small family into a big house to live with five nieces and nephews. Although their personalities and principles in teaching the children are complete opposites, they can always manage to solve any problems with their love. However, the children find out that their father’s death has been covered up. They divert their anger to Yuen and Ting and run away from home. Eventually, Yuen and Ting find them back. When the children start to treat them like real parents, their marriage is in a crisis. Will the children have to face another major change at home?
The story is about an aging cowboy and his nephew who transport 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming to sell them to the British Army. Along the way, their simple horse drive is complicated when they rescue five Chinese girls from a slave trader, saving them from a life of prostitution and indentured servitude. Compelled to do the right thing, they take the girls with them as they continue their perilous trek across the frontier, followed by a vicious gang of killers sent by the whorehouse madam who originally paid for the girls. Broken Trail weaves together two historical events: the British buying horses in the American West in the late 19th century and Chinese women being transported from the West Coast to the interior to serve as prostitutes.
Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy.
