Using clocks and watches throughout, this film, shot by three different cameras opens with Brighton's quiet streets and seafront at dawn. Though everything is closed, anglers ready their boats for fishing trips and a milkman delivers milk. Gradually the seafront comes to life and we see shops open and daytrippers arriving at the station. Artists exhibit their works, people go to church and the pier and beaches fill up. The film ends at a pub where the beer glasses spell E N D