Based on a play written by Tony roper who is better known as Jamesie in Rab C Nesbitt.The Steamie is a Glasgow wash house where women come to wash their clothes and gossip.Set in New Year's Eve in 1950. This dramatisation centres on four women of various ages.Doreen loves the movies and dreams of falling in love with a film star.Mrs Culfeathers the oldest of the women is sad that she has never met her great grandchildren.The dialect is hard Scots and reflects the working class Glaswegian life of the women. That includes hard drinking husbands.This is a bittersweet comedy with lots of pathos. One of the characters describing her life as a woman is very poignant.Unfortunately this television presentation is very stagebound. Only opening up for the screen for the musical numbers or the reverie sequences.It could also had been made shorter, although I understands the stage play is longer.