Liverpool provides the backdrop for a look at homelessness and rough sleeping amid visible signs of civic prosperity. The film walks the city's streets, talking to people begging and sleeping in doorways, and sets their accounts against the shops, developments, and regeneration projects nearby. Outreach workers and campaigners describe what is actually available to someone with nowhere to sleep, from shelters and hostels to the gaps in that provision, and the film asks why a wealthy-looking city still has people on its pavements at night. Local voices carry most of the running time, giving specific accounts of how someone ends up rough sleeping and what happens, or doesn't, when they ask for help. Runtime stays close to street level rather than statistics, following individual cases through the city center. The contrast between the two Liverpools, one of investment and one of survival, is the film's organizing idea, and it leaves the tension between them unresolved.