A home movie produced by Edwin Davison which focuses on his daughter Karen as a toddler and small child both at the family home at Wallsend and on holiday in the Lake District around Ambleside and Lake Windermere in Cumbria. Karen is seen playing by herself and with other children and accompanies her parents on a journey along the River Tyne passing Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. shipyard where her father worked as a Manager in the Cost Department. Writing on a chalkboard reads...

A home movie produced by Edwin Davison which focuses on his daughter Karen as a toddler and small child both at the family home at Wallsend and on holiday in the Lake District around Ambleside and Lake Windermere in Cumbria. Karen is seen playing by herself and with other children and accompanies her parents on a journey along the River Tyne passing Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. shipyard where her father worked as a Manager in the Cost Department. Writing on a chalkboard reads ‘Karen at Home and Away’. Standing beside it tightening the screws on the board a girl in a red hat. Inside Rothay Park at Ambleside Karen in a white dress and holding white flowers walks past a flowerbed before wondering around a putting green. Around her families attempt to put their balls into the numbered holes. In the near distance the spire of St Mary’s Parish Church. A parade of well-dressed children and their parents walk through the churchyard of St Mary’s, at the front what appears to be a decorative harp being carried by two young men. Back in the park Karen and another toddler play together; one holds a flower under the nose of the other before walking off together towards a path. Karen's mother Evelyne walks towards camera holding one of the children. She puts the child down who proceeds to walk toward the camera. Near to the shore of lake Windermere Karen now plays with a colourful beachball before walking closer to the shoreline with her mother. They walk past the camera, and the child begins to play with a different red ball. She is watched by another woman and two boys sitting nearby. Karen is embraced by her mother Evelyne who is holding the other child seen previously. Edwin lays on the grass in front of them. Evelyne walks both toddlers towards the camera changes to Edwin holding a cup for Karen to drink from who instead point at the person behind the camera. In a suburban garden Karen plays with a large yellow toy in the shape of a swan or duck. She is placed on the toy by her mother watched by three boys. From a field traffic moving along a busy road in the near distance changes to Karen playing with her toys in a push-trolley the front garden of a different house. An older woman stands over her watching. The child throws a ball which is chased after by a large white dog after which she plays with her toys on the lawn. A horse and fowl in a field with Karen and two other children walking towards them. An older boy watches out for the animals, the fowl eats from a bucket. Back in the family garden Karen and her father work together to do some gardening, the large white dog seen previously walks towards camera holding a green cup in its mouth. Evelyne rides a horse into a farm yard before climbing off and removing the saddle. Another woman comes over and lead the horse into a field. A man stands at the gate feeding a horse which changes to show a horse rolling about in the field. Karen holds a teddy bear and squats underneath washing hanging on a line. She gets up and wonders around the family garden followed by the large white dog who then proceeds to race around the lawn. Now covered in snow Karen again walks through the family garden playing with the family dog who is barking. Edwin walks with his daughter along a path followed by Evelyne who helps Karen climb downs a set of steep steps. From a boat travelling along the River Tyne the town of North Shields in the distance, a barge heading out to sea and a tanker being fitted out along the far quayside. Edwin holds Karen in his arms pointing out the various ships and tankers moored along a quayside. On the river four tugboat moored up beside each other. Back on dry land Karen walks along a pavement and standing at a front door with her mother. In a garden she and three other small children looking inside a hutch and play on the lawn. Along a country road a blossoming tree or bush changes to a Evelyne pushing Karen in a push chair along a suburban road. They are accompanied by the white dog on a lead. In the garden Karen sits with a small boy reading, both children hold up books to the camera. Another toddler comes over and the two play with two buckets of water, an older boy lays on a cot nearby reading a comic. At dusk or dawn thick clouds over suburban semi-detached houses are lit up in dramatic reds. In the family garden Karen plays beside a Thunderbolt toy car with toys in a bowl of water. She gets to her feet and carries a small bucket of water around the garden. Karen walks through Rothay Park at Ambleside carrying a stuffed toy, the spire if St Mary’s church in the background. Children play in a playground on swings, six smaller children sit of a rocking swing watched over by a man, two older boys stand on each end helping to rock the ride. Both in bathing costumes the Edwin and Karen paddle on the edge of a river as a couple pass in a rowing boat. The child sits on a blanket followed by them both paddling again in the water, but this time accompanied by a second man and older boy. The man dives into the water and proceeds to go for a swim. They all sit or stand along the river's edge and another group row past after which the father dives in and has a swim. The family are now in a rowing boat themselves on the river with the father at the ores. On Windermere a passenger ferry pulls away from a docking area and heads out into open water; two Mute swans with four signets paddle around the now empty dock area. Karen stands looking at a charity-doll in the shape of a girl holding a box. Then, she is sitting with her mother on grass drinking from a bottle. Back on the dock area one of the Mute swans stretches its neck trying to reach food being offered it by a small group kneeling there, the Evelyne and Karen walk past towards a moored boat. Karen sits with another girl in tartan trousers the same age on a wooden pontoon sitting on a beach area. The child’s parents sit nearby and watch over the two girls as they play. The Evelyne and Karen, along with other passengers on a Ribble coach which has pulled up along a country road, crosses the busy road to stand with other mothers and children along the verge. A man in a uniform stands with them. Karen comes forward carrying the stem of a flower. The film ends with an animation of a sleeping half-moon. End title: The end