Placed in the working class of the Chicago Gallagher family, eight working-class families, must survive the ups and downs in the current economic downturn. With the mother who is outside his element and the alcoholic father who usually ends up on the floor in the bedroom, the 18-year-oldDaughter FionaOn left with the task of keeping his younger brothers and sisters in a straight and narrow, this series is based on a series of the same name in the UK.