All of us who live in cities walk past homeless people every day.  We see them sleeping in doorways, begging in front of torn paper cups with little handwritten notices, selling the Big Issue, pushing old shopping trolleys full of plastic bags or shuffling around dirtier, shabiier and with a bit more luggage than most people. "Luggaged up" they call it on the streets.

Film maker Penny Woolcock spent eight months in that parallel world, befriending people and finding out where they eat and sleep and socialise.  "Food is the least of our problems," says Derek and over the months making her film Woolcock realised the very real problems of homeless people have very little to do with the lack of a rood over their heads or a bed to sleep in.  Their problems come from their past lives - and are less easy to remedy.  Despite the effects of different charities to move people into homes, the streets is often where they feel safe and know best. 

In this moving feature length documentary Penny Woolcock gives the seen but unheard residents of London's street a voice.

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