We see the eight year old twin brothers Peter and Andrew Williams playing at home and drawing and painting using their feet. A voice over explains that they are the youngest of five children and were born with deformed arms due to their mother taking the drug thalidomide during pregnancy. The boys attend Wilson Stuart special school (at Erdington in Birmingham). Pat Eaglestone interviews their mother Mrs Williams. She describes her feelings including realising that the clothes she had bought before the birth were for able bodied children, her defiance in not wanting to cover up her boys when taking them out and the insensitive comments from the public which include her being asked if she had taken that tablet (thalidomide) to get rid of her children. We then see the Williams family together at a roller skating rink where Andrew and Peter wear protective helmets.
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Thalidomide was prescribed by doctors as a treatment for morning sickness. Between 1956 and 1962 approximately 10,000 children were born world-wide with birth defects due to the drug.