The Optimists of Nine Elms

The story revolves around Sam, a dignified, former Music hall artist who now works with his elderly trained dog Bella, busking in the West End of London. Liz and Mark live with mum Chrissie and dad Bob and baby brother James in a drab, cramped basement flat in Nine Elms. When they’re out of school, mum has little time for them and they find their own adventures together out on the streets. Sam offers to pay them to baby-sit Bella while he’s working and they agree. Sam tells them they will have to ask their mum and dad for the money and