"Everything Alan Clarke did was important; it mattered," playwright David Leland has commented. Diane, though unknown here, mattered very much, treating as it did the subject of incest in the life of an average thirteen-year-old girl. Diane is a lonely, self-sufficient East End schoolgirl caring for her father after her mother has run off. She keeps her distance from the life of her church-centered community and from Jim, a bus conductor who is attracted to her. When Diane becomes pregnant, Jim offers to marry her, but things are not that simple... Newcomer Janine Drzewicki plays Diane completely straight, away from the inherent melodrama of her life, and the result is astounding.