Better Days

Gemma Barrett is bright and popular with a great sense of humour, despite the problems caused by her unhappy, alcoholic mother, who brings home men to make money for booze. Working in Southampton, she meets up with her old sweetheart Nick, but when she gets a job on the Queen Mary, her head is turned by Vince Morelli, the American boss of a gang of longshoremen. But Vince is Mafia, and her liaison with him could put her in real danger. Gemma has to find the strength to break the destructive ties with her mother and Vince before she can find true happiness...