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[opening narration, in the 1985 TBS premiere]
Threads is a story about nuclear war. ["Threads" is underlined in red] Text:
It relates events through the experiences of two families: the working class Kemps and the middle class Becketts. The Beckett's unmarried daughter, Ruth, is pregnant. The father is young Jimmy Kemp, a fact linking the destinies of two families. Through their eyes Britain is seen slowly awakening to the possibility and consequences of nuclear war. The story spans a period of one month before to 13 years after a nuclear attack. It is set in the near future... in the city of Sheffield, England
[opening narration, in the 1985 TBS premiere]
Threads is a story about nuclear war. ["Threads" is underlined in red] Text:
It relates events through the experiences of two families: the working class Kemps and the middle class Becketts. The Beckett's unmarried daughter, Ruth, is pregnant. The father is young Jimmy Kemp, a fact linking the destinies of two families. Through their eyes Britain is seen slowly awakening to the possibility and consequences of nuclear war. The story spans a period of one month before to 13 years after a nuclear attack. It is set in the near future... in the city of Sheffield, England
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that is Dore and Totley Abbeydale and Woodseats
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should rendezvous in Abbeydale Park
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Release Band B that is
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Money has had no meaning since the attack
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The only viable currency is food given as reward for work
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or withheld as punishment
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In the grim economics of the aftermath
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Movie Summary
The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.
