She returns to the small town where she grew up and visits the milk bar where she once worked, accompanied by camera crew and a publicist, Mrs Blyth.
The milk bar is owned by Joe, an immigrant from Italy, who employs an Aboriginal man, Eddie.
Joe offers Peggy her old job back but she goes to work as a maid for wealthy Sally Blake.
It results in Merv getting drunk and cutting Eddie's eyes with a beer bottle, permanently blinding him.
[2] William Sterling said, "Apart from the fact that we had these excellent actors available, we felt it would destroy the whole social impact of the play if we cast white people in their roles.
[6] The TV critic from the Sunday Sydney Morning Herald called the production a "half-hearted stab" at writing a story on the problems of the aboriginal in a white society, despite some good acting from Georgia Lee and Edward Howell.
She added, "One couldn't escape the feeling that the author had dashed it off after seeing too many American movies, rather than making a serious attempt to put the Australian colour problem into its own perspective.
"[8] Another critic from the daily Sydney Morning Herald said the show "argued an imepccable principle clumsily" which had "unreal or stereotyped characters and dialogue that was sometimes more stagey than convincingly laconic.