Overview

It's a funny thing attention; too much of it if paid to your private business, not enough when there's a genuine cry for help. A young couple, Carol and Nick, live with her four-year-old child, Sharon. When Nick and Carol have sex, the neighbours listen in, but when the couple begin to violently abuse Sharon, no-one notices. It emerges that Sharon has been'scalded and starved, but the bleakness of the'story reaches its brutal climax when a social worker visits the house.