Milkman 'Bugsy' Maloney gives local children rides on his float until young Dylan falls off and hits his head. There is no lasting damage and the boy's mother Ali knows it was an accident but she has money problems and allows herself to be talked into suing the dairy by her mother and thuggish ex-husband Clive,who moves back in with her to ease her financial burden. At a meeting at a solicitor's Bugsy is prepared to admit liability but Ali will not allow him to be sacked over a trumped up claim and ends up having to make a compromise.