A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.
En la Nueva Orleans de 1937, una rica viuda, la señora Venable, ofrece al doctor Cukrowicz los fondos para crear un hospital a condición de que practique una lobotomía a su sobrina Catherine. La señora Venable se encuentra perturbada por la reciente muerte en Europa de su hijo Sebastian, con quien solía viajar todos los veranos, salvo el último, en el que Sebastian prefirió llevar como acompañante a su prima Catherine.
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
