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Stevie, a young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes to London and gets a job on a building site - a melting pot of itinerant labourers from around the country. Here he has to contend with Mick, the bossy ganger, trying but usually failing to control his workers, Shem, Mo and Larry and the other lads as they duck and dive the rules and regulations of the building trade. Stevie has other problems to contend with: the wages are low, the site swarms with rats, he has nowhere to sleep and life in London isn't that easy. One day, on his way to work, Stevie finds a handbag in a skip. He takes it back to its owner and meets Susan. As Stevie and Susan learn to live with the ups and downs of life in London, RIFF RAFF builds a portrait - sometimes gritty, often funny of life as it is lived in the margins.

The master for this film has been retrieved from Film4 library's extensive archive. The film was originally mastered for playback on the VHS machines and the standard definition televisions of the time. The quality will not be as good as a film which has been digitally re-mastered to be shown on high definition wide screens. We have opened up our archive, in order that films which might not otherwise be on release on any format, are available for dedicated film enthusiasts who want the opportunity to watch them.

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