Tom
Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.
Village Policeman
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
Butcher
In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.
하이드리 힐을 암살하려는 첫번째 시도는 실패하였지만, 주인공 일행은 결국 하이드리 힐을 저격하는데 성공한다. 그러나 동료 중 한명의 밀고로 인해 나치로부터 집요한 추격을 받게 되고, 마침내 성당의 지하실에서 마지막 대항을 시도한다. 7명의 대원중 다섯은 전투 중 사망하고 최후의 2인이 남았을 때 나치는 지하실에 호수물을 채우기 시작한다. 최후의 2인은 물이 점점 차오르고 도저히 살아날 방법을 찾일 수 없게 되자, 무언의 대화를 나눈 후 서로를 포옹한 채 상대방의 머리에 총구를 겨눈다. 새벽의 창공을 가르는 총소리가 울려퍼진다.
George
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Harris
Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place, Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her, and a strange, yet mutually beneficial, relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper, newly arrived on a nearby estate, also catches Dulcima's eye...
Peter
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly, if eccentric, and she toys with the idea of a flirtation with dishy young gamekeeper Rob. But events at Harvest Festival leave her feeling manipulated, and six months later, with the consequences all too evident, she finds herself trapped in what is more like a nightmare. What role is she destined to play in the cycle of the seasons -- and of the generations?
Commissionaire
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Charlie (uncredited)
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
