The film opens when Alan Bird witnesses how an ice cream van is attacked and destroyed by an angry competitor. This makes him into the struggle between two Italian families, the Bernardis and the Rossis, over whose ice cream vans can sell where in Glasgow.

• Comfort and Joy
• Bill Forsyth
• Bill Paterson
• Eleanor David
• Clare Grogan
• Lake (Comfort and Joy)
• Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
• Scottish Television (STV)