A film about Poplar, a district in the East End of London, and the people who live there, seen in their day-to-day lives and organising their own local festivals. Poplar of the 1970s is looked at in the light of the past, the importance of the labour movement in the beginning of the 20th century, highlighted by the events of 1920's when the Poplar Council, headed by George Lansbury, went to prison for none payment of the rates to Central Govenment.