Set in a Midlands mining village in 1908, where work is scarce and hardship a way of life, NO WORK TODAY is the moving portrait of one family and the love and loyalty that sustain it.

          Mary Ann, courageous and spirited, single-handedly provides for her children when deserted by her selfish and philandering husband, Raish. Katy, her vivacious and captivating daughter, seeks financial security in marriage. But she can never forget the handsome, charming man who first loved her. Paul, hardworking and ambitious, dreams of mine-ownership and prosperity. But too late he learns the high cost of success… And Ben. A fighter for miners’ rights, hot-headed and impetuous, he covets his brother’s wife.

          Above all of them hangs the shadow of their drunken and domineering father – the man they all have reason to hate and the man their adored mother has never stopped loving…