Description: The many and varied pleasures available to the young and old are placed in relief in this film by the ease of death and injury in road accidents that would take them all away. Three characters, a young factory worker called Bill Jones, an older gentleman called Harry Smith and housewife Mrs Brown are shown enjoying their lives before carelessness threatens to take them away. The film begins at the old Wembley Stadium during a Thursday speedway event. A family purchase tickets at the stadium's entrance kiosk. Inside the stadium a large audience watch the motorcycle racing competition. Bill Jones manages to extract an autograph from speedway champion Tommy Price of the Wembley Lions. Walking home from work one day he has a less fortunate encounter with motor traffic however as car swerves away from a cyclist and clips him on the pavement. Gentler pursuits than speedway are enjoyed by older men: some film of men playing bowls and golf, and of a man falling asleep in his garden precede an evening session in the pub, drinking, conversing, playing dominoes and darts. A couple of men leave the pub a bit worse for wear, with camera trickery mimicking double vision. Some bikini-clad and swimsuit-wearing young women play ball in a garden and enjoy the water at Wembley Open Air Baths. They are introduced as the sort of thing the men would not be able to see properly or enjoy in their alcohol diminished state. Other young people enjoy dancing, table tennis, scouting, and girl guiding. Some infants feed pigeons in Trafalgar Square and pet horses on Whitehall, before safely crossing the road by Horseguards' Parade. Back in Wembley children enjoy the rides at a playground and a model railway fascinates some schoolboys. Harry Smith and his wife attend the old time dances at Wembley Town Hall, where their waltzing receives positive comment from other dancers. Harry is less good on his feet when coming home one day, however. He gets off a bus and crosses in front of it to be hit by a passing car. A bystander rushes to call the emergency services, and both police and ambulance quickly appear at the scene of the accident. One police officer is left with the task of informing Mrs Smith of her husband's condition. Mrs Brown manages her family's ration allocation, buys meat at the butchers and cooks up a meal for her husband and children. Later in the month, as she worries about having enough points remaining to feed them all adequately, Mrs Brown steps out into the road between parked cars and is struck by a motorcycle coming along Grand Parade (Forty Avenue). She survives, but is laid up, leaving her useless family to try and make up for her absence in the kitchen. The washing up piles up and crockery is smashed both by accident and design during efforts to clean up after dinner. The film ends with a stark yet amusing series of images asking the audience whether next year they will by lying 'like this' (a woman reading while lying in the garden), 'like this' (the same woman sleeping in the garden), 'like this' (a different woman posing in a bikini in the garden), 'or like this' (an image of a grave).