ALL NEAT IN BLACK STOCKINGS

Ginger is a window cleaner with an eye for the girls. His best friend and neighbour, Dwyer, swaps girls with him. Ginger is cleaning hospital windows and he sets up a date with nurse Babette. A patient gives Ginger the keys to his house and asks him to care for his pets during his hospital stay. Ginger takes Babette to the local pub but his interest wanders to Carole and Jill. He sets up a date with Carole and later that night he switches his date with Dwyer.

Ginger cares for Mr. McLaughlin's birds, rabbits, white rats and many aquaria. This home is far nicer than Ginger's run down bedsit. His pushy brother-in-law moves in with Ginger's pregnant sister, Cecily. Issur even moves in with his girlfriend, Jocasta. Ginger's passive and uncomplaining sister seems not to object.

Ginger takes Carole ice skating, but his interest moves to her friend, Jill. He starts seeing Jill and even buys her a large plush penguin. He meets Jill's mother and Dwyer sees a difference in his friend. Ginger does not even try to have sex with Jill. Jill and her mother live together and Ginger befriends Mum.

Issur decides to have a large unauthorised party in the borrowed residence. Angry Ginger shows up and starts to kick people out of the house, which has been trashed. Later that night, Ginger finds Jill in bed with Dwyer. She has lost her virginity to Dwyer, who thought nothing was wrong because they always slept with each other's women. Brother-in-law goes off to Mexico with Jocasta and Jill ends up pregnant by Dwyer.

Gunge returns from hospital to find his pets hungry and possessions damaged. He nonetheless hires Cecily as his housekeeper. Despite all, Ginger decides to marry Jill, and makes a deposit on a rental property, but Jill decides they will live with her mother. Jill has the baby and Ginger says it looks like Dwyer. Ginger continues work cleaning windows and stops for lunch at a café. The waitress is young and pretty and Ginger flirts with her and the movie ends.

Ginger decides to marry Jill after she becomes pregnant by Dwyer, but they end up living with Jill's mother. Jill gives birth, Ginger comments the baby resembles Dwyer, and he resumes his window cleaning, flirting with a new waitress as the film ends.

The ending underscores the cyclical, unresolved nature of Ginger’s pursuit of love and pleasure. Despite setbacks—including Jill’s pregnancy by his best friend and domestic upheaval—Ginger’s restless spirit endures. Rather than settling into traditional domesticity, the film closes with Ginger returning to his old habits, suggesting that change is elusive and the pursuit of fleeting happiness remains his true constant.