Description: Footage of Elephant and Castle shopping centre throughout.

Film opens with filmmaker, Eva Sajovic, talking about the culture shock of coming to Elephant and Castle as an immigrant. She looks at a contact sheet of photos of Elephant and Castle shopping centre. Speeded up footage of people in the shopping centre in front of the station entrance. Further footage around the centre. The contributor talks about a feeling of belonging and community in the shopping centre.

27" Filmmaker Rebecca Davies talks about being from the area. She looks at a map of the shopping centre and talks about how being there is comforting. She reminisces about the centre.

54" Contributor (filmmaker Sarah Butler?) says she is from Manchester and moved to Elephant and Castle for the cheap rent. She says she has never liked shopping centres but this one feels different as it is more like a community centre.

1'20" Short clips of the centre and the surrounding area with the imagined voice of the shopping centre narrating.

2'37" Helen O'Brien, local resident and activist, talks about the opening of the shopping centre and it being the first covered centre in London. 3'04" Local Historian, Stephen Humphrey, talks about the shopping centre already being out of date in 1965 as it was reletively small and built over three stories.

3'27" Writer, Jose da Silva, states that the centre is historically important as it's the oldest in Europe. He says it is build on an American model which was meant to be in the suburbs and driven to whereas it was actually built on a traffic island and this is why it didn't work for many years. After 25 years Eric Reynolds, Founding Director of Urban Space Management, made it into something successful. He firstly painted it pink.

4'06" Eric Reynolds says that before it was painted pink it was and 'invisible' sludge green and long and flat like a cadillac. He says it's Shiaparelli pink not bubblegum pink. He says that he felt people passed by on buses but didn't know what was inside. They brought in a Jamaican bank, South American cafes and started the market outside (relevant footage).

5'06" Helen O'Brien talks about the tea dance that was held in the centre every week (pictures of it viewed on a computer). Helen is now in a carehome but was once an activist fighting for the tenants of the now-demolished Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle. Views of what developer, Delancey, are proposing to develop on the shopping centre site. The filmmaker says it looks like something from a sci-fi film. 5'59" The imagined voice of the shopping centre talks about what is offered in the centre (with relevant footage).

6'52" Architect, Godson Egbo, says the centre operates as an 'incubator' for small businesses. Eva Sajovic states that Delancy's plans for the centre are for 1000 new homes, a pedestriantised town centre, a market square and outdoor retail units. Godson Egbo talks about the shopping untis currently having reasonable rents and people subletting small parts of their shop untis. He says these things enabled newcomers to establish new businesses, start paying taxes and start feeling part of society.

8'22" Founding Chair of Latin Elephant, Dr Patricia Velazquez says the model of having multiple shopping units within one unit is a viable option for many businesses but developers don't want to promote this. She advocates on behalf of these different ways of doing business.

9' The imagined voice of the shopping centre talks about the people found in the centre (with relevant footage).

9'48" Local resident and campaigner, Janet Yatak, talks about coming to the shopping centre every day and her routine there. Eva Sajovic talks about seeing Janet whenever they are in the shopping centre and says they always talk about the politics of the centre. Janet says she has a love/hate relationship with it, that it is like having a personal relationship with the building and the communities.

11'07" Patricia Velazquez says the centre is like home for the Latin American community, that it makes them feel part of the area and that they helped to turn the area around through their businesses there. It is also the first stopping place for many Latin Americans arriving in the uk.

11'49" Shopping centre trader, Viktoria, talks about people of different nationalities coming to the centre every day, whether or not they are buying, because it is a community. Local tailor, George Dyer, has a business close to the shopping centre. He talks about taking over his business from a friend. He says that the Elephant has become an extension of the city and so property prices are rising but that he wants to stay there for as long as he can.

13'25" The imagined voice of the shopping centre talks about the protential development. 14'02" Jay, a former trader, talks about the stalls that have closed. Luz, owner of Lucy's Hair Salon, talks about having been there for 25 years and wanting the landlords to help long term tenants out. She says she will miss the place. 15'06" Market stall owner, Zed, says business isn't doing well and that people are no longer passing because the subways have been blocked off. He says he is in limbo and that he'll be unlikely to be able to stay there once the area is developed because rents will be so high. 15'47" Janet Yatak says loosing the building would be like cutting off a limb.

16'05" Andreas Phillippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, author of Spacial Justice: Body, Lawscape, Atmosphere, talks about local communities wanted to preserve spaces in which they felt safe and the Elephant is one of those places. It is important to retain spaces of nostalgia in a fast moving world.

17'03" The imagined voice of the shopping centre talks aobut it being regenerated. Footage of a sign tied to a post with flowers saying 'R.I.P. Elephant and Castle roundabout'.

17'34" Eric Reynolds talks about the complexity of the site and it's links with the infrastructure of the railway. 18'07" Torange Khonsari, Co-founding Director of Public Works, says that the shopping centre is a good example of how such retail space can be supportive of the larger economy. Public Works is a design practice which uses innovative approaches to designing public space in conjunction with developers and local communities. Torange talks about local communities owning parts of shopping centres.

19'03" Janet Yatak says regeneration shoud be to improve the quality of life for people in the area and this doesn't fit in with businesses having to close. She says it's just about profit. 19'34" Godson Egbo says that after development it will be a generic shopping centre with the same shops as everywhere else. Torange Khonsari says this will alienate a whole sector of people and that this one of the reasons why multi-culturalism is viewed as failing as people won't integrate. 20'28" Egbo says space should be put aside for smaller, local businesses.

20'56" The filmmakers say that this isn't just a conversation about concrete and buildings but about how people live and what they might lose, about who counts and who is heard.