Beskrivelse
In 1947 Joseph (Joe) Lampton, an ambitious young man, moves from his hometown, the dreary factory town of Dufdon, to the somewhat larger town of Warnley to assume a secure, but poorly paid and dead-end, post in the Borough Treasurer’s Department. Determined to get ahead, and ignoring the warnings of his colleague and roommate Charlie Soames, he pursues Susan Brown, the daughter of a local industrial magnate……