Una pareja de recién casados heredan la fortuna y la mansión de una tía de ella, tras su reciente muerte por suicidio. Los habitantes de una casa cercana les harán la vida imposible.
Pollitt: "You know the nuts and bolts of our policy?" Les Cannon: "To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost."
"Suppose you heard I was someone you couldn't possibly approve of." For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.
Four-part drama serial about the British juicidal system, dealing with an investigation presented from the perspectives of the police force, the criminal, the solicitor and the prison system.