Robert Robinson visits the seaside town of Ilfacombe in Devon in the winter during the economic recession of the early 1980s and paints a bleak picture. He returns in the summer to see it transformed by the holidaymakers. Fundamentally this documentary gives a great snapshot of holidaying in Britain at a time of dismal economic news and industrial strife. The tourist industry in Ilfracombe was competing with the so-called holiday abroad and at home with a poorer Britain.