Jane needs someone to amuse her children, Ben and Angela, while she is working on a book which has a deadline, so she hires Greta. Greta is from North. She is not pretty and her clothes are slovenly, but she has experience with children. Tim, Jane’s husband, is not contented with Jane’s decision about Greta, “Where did you find that funny little thing?” he says.
The children take to Greta already the first day, but the parents are sceptic. Jane thinks Greta is rude and disrespectful and Tim is complaining about Greta’s looks, he doesn’t find her sexy enough; the last au pair was a sex object. But Jane begins to accept Greta. She does her work effective and she makes up effective games such as “Washing up”. The children think the game is funny, because they will have a reward if they do well.
One day Ben asks Jane if they can use cardboard-boxes; they want to play Beggars. At first Jane is sceptic, but Ben is stubborn and Jane gives them permission to play Beggars.
Greta repeats a daily routine with the children. Jane has never seen her children so happy and excited on coming home from wherever Greta took them, but one morning Jane figures out that her children have been begging in the city as the daily routine. The mother is furious and Greta tells that the money was meant to take her and the children to the Southend. At the end when Greta wants to leave even though nobody told her to, Jane tells her that she doesn’t have to leave.
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