Opening with a shot from within the #80 bus line, writer and director Bill Davies introduces the audience to a lifestyle well known to those who lived in the era, or to those whose parents or grand-parents did.
The documentary unravels the heartbreaking lifestyle of Greeks who dealt with major economic and cultural problems and whose pride prevented them from turning to begging. Instead, they tried to "stick to their own kind'' and remain faithfully within the Greek community, asking for help and support from either associations like the Cretan Association, or from benevolent societies, from non-profit organizations, or even from other Greeks, who had managed to be in a better financial state than themselves.
The documentary unravels the heartbreaking lifestyle of Greeks who dealt with major economic and cultural problems and whose pride prevented them from turning to begging. Instead, they tried to "stick to their own kind'' and remain faithfully within the Greek community, asking for help and support from either associations like the Cretan Association, or from benevolent societies, from non-profit organizations, or even from other Greeks, who had managed to be in a better financial state than themselves.