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Eileen Lewis is the widowed matriarch of a large, close-knit and dysfunctional Northern family and their life in Birkenhead.
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Episode 1
Paula and her sons visit Eileen but she is nowhere to be seen,the holiday album has been ransacked and a picture frame broken. Paula panics and rings her mother but gets no reply as Eileen is in Liverpool,visiting the World Museum with her phone switched off. Paula eventually realizes this and follows her but Eileen has moved on to a super-market where she passes the time of day with a lonely old man. By the time Paula gets through to her Eileen has returned home. Meanwhile Mandy's relaxing bubble bath is interrupted when her kids set fire to the garden shed but by evening the family has got back together for a barbecue under the stars.





