Daniel Blake has worked as a joiner in Newcastle for most of his life, but now needs help from the state for the first time ever following a heart attack which has cost him his job When he crosses paths with single mother Katie, who has accepted relocation from London as her only chance of a home, they find themselves in no-man’s land, caught on the barbed wire of an uncaring welfare bureaucracy that operates amidst the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain.