Caroline Ip

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.

イギリスの一流学園の生徒4人が突然失踪するが、18日後、そのうちの1人、リズだけが憔悴した姿で帰還する。彼女は学園中の女子生徒の憧れの的である男子生徒マイクと、その親友のジェフ、それにフランキーというクラスメイト3人とともに、近くにある防空壕跡の秘密の“穴”に閉じこもり、ちょっとした週末のパーティーを楽しんでいた、と証言する。ところがその話の裏には、彼女の切なくも痛ましい乙女心が隠されていて……。