In Chicago, a middle-class family lives with their alcoholic father Frank, while the eldest daughter Fiona bears the burden of looking after her five siblings in a saga of changing daily events.
The Gallaghers are back with an even bigger bang; Fiona begins working as a waitress with her friend Veronica, Mickey goes back to jail, Karen recovers from her addiction, and Frank's mother comes out of prison.
Fiona's joy of living together with Jimmy turns into a nightmare with the arrival of Jimmy's father-in-law, the drug dealer Nando, while Fiona tries to adapt to a life full of terror and chaos.
In Season 4, the Gallagher family faces its challenges. As things get more difficult for all family members, everyone tries to stick together in hopes of preserving the last vestiges of their unity.
New events unfold in the lives of the Gallagher family: Fiona is freed from house arrest and begins a relationship with a music artist, but soon finds herself in trouble when her ex-boyfriend, Jimmy, returns. While Ian refuses to acknowledge his psychological disorder amid the entanglement of...Read more relationships and crises.
Carl witnesses a horrific crime and decides to change his criminal path with the help of Fiona, who decides to abandon her sister Debbie during her pregnancy, before leaving her to face an unknown fate in a remote rural area.
A month after Fiona's failed wedding, Frank wakes up from a coma to face his family's discontent, while Fiona regains control of her life and takes over managing the diner and renovates it, before buying a laundromat from an elderly owner suffering from Alzheimer's.
Fiona gets involved in managing a new apartment building. She gets to know the new residents and faces the neighborhood's challenges. A special relationship develops between her and Ford, the mysterious carpenter who helps her solve the problems of annoying tenants. Meanwhile, her brother Ian...Read more cooperates with a center to help the homeless.
Fiona gets involved in the crisis of her brother, Ian, who is in prison because of his revolutionary ideas. While she tries to secure bail, Ian becomes a symbol inside prison, but Fiona's advice leads him to plead insanity to reduce his sentence.
Six months after Fiona's departure, her sister Debbie takes over control of the family, Mickey and Ian are released early on parole, and the Gallaghers struggle with life's new challenges.
After years of chaos and mishaps, the Covid epidemic strikes the Gallagher family, before financial difficulties force them to rethink their lives and their future, and seek new beginnings.