Police, methylated tramps, Nigerian royalty, gypsies, Irish aunts, teachers, thieves, cockneys & homesick Jamaicans clamour for young Michael`s attention. His world is bursting with all walks of Lambeth life in the early 1970s. Among the terraces, railway arches, bombsites & river mud of Vauxhall, he discovers the meaning of slum clearance: the world he knows is disappearing. As his certainty in the fragile world around him begins to crumble so too does his parent`s relationship & his mother`s health. Vauxhall is a tender & occasionally dark portrait of a child looking for his place in inner city London.