在这部生活是甜蜜的剧情/喜剧片中,温蒂（艾莉森·斯戴曼 Alison Steadman 饰）和丈夫安迪（吉姆·布劳德本特 Jim Broadbent 饰）结婚多年，两人育有两个女儿娜塔莉（克莱尔·斯金纳 Claire Skinner 饰）和尼古拉（简·霍洛克斯 Jane Horrocks 饰）。温蒂本分贤惠，操持着家中大大小小的事务，而安迪辛勤工作，希望有一天能够自立门户。
娜塔莉是一名水管工，个性开朗的她向往自由不羁的生活，喜欢和朋友们待在一起，然而，尼古拉却恰恰相反，有些神经质的她不仅整天紧张兮兮，还患有厌食症。尼古拉和男友之间的感情产生了裂缝，这让尼古拉的精神濒临了崩溃的边缘，与此同时，安迪在一次意外之中身负重伤，整个家庭的重担全部落在了温蒂和娜塔莉的肩头。
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, leads aerobics at a primary school, jokes like a vaudevillian, agrees to waitress at a friend's new restaurant and dotes on Andy, a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, and with a drunken friend, buys a broken down lunch wagon. Natalie, with short neat hair and a snappy, droll manner, is a plumber; she has a holiday planned in America, but little else. Last is Nicola, odd man out: a snarl, big glasses, cigarette, mussed hair, jittery fingers, bulimic, jobless, and unhappy. How they interact and play out family conflict and love is the film's subject.
生活既艰难亦美丽。甜蜜生活。生活是甜蜜的。生活就该如此。
