Based in early 1950s south Wales mining village, Feet of Clay looks at the families who survived the war and who now are a two-wage household. This new affluence brings with it greed, jealousy and impatience. Godfrey Parson, having completed National Service, has tasted Freedom and money in his pocket and doesn't intend to give it up.

Ivy Edmunds and her family relocate at her husband's insistence from a recently allocated modern council house near the sea to a shabby terrace in a south Wales mining village, to escape bombing during WWII. Ivy is loath to go at first but gradually her opinion of her new surroundings changes.