Unemployed Carlene, her friend Val and the homeless Woman share their mornings in the park. They indulge in mockery of Nanny, another park regular. In Val and Carlene, Nanny recognizes traces of her own past that trouble her conscience. Val and Carlene enact a dramatic flashback to forty years before, in which Nanny dismisses her nursery maid Rosie for 'immoral' behaviour.