The video is about the conditions of children during the Victorian age, during the industrial revolution. The video is set in a workhouse where some children, both boys and girls, are forced to work and struggle to survive. They are controlled by three masters who seem despotic and severe. Indeed they seem to compel their children to work through violence and bullying. it is clear that children are essential to the factory. Children seem in poor condition, they are sad, scared, tired. Some also try to rebel against the terrible work, a child also tries to steal items from a master like a pocket watch.
However there is still a place for hope. Everyone hope for a better future, hope for more rights and freedom, they have a fate worse than school.