어릴 적 헤어진 아빠가 스스로 목숨을 끊었다는 소식에 오랜만에 고향으로 돌아온 `새디`. 그곳에 머물며 신문사에 취직한 그는 동료 `댄`과 함께 마을에 오래도록 전해져 온 `악마의 눈`에 대해 파헤치기 시작한다. 그러다 아빠의 서랍장에서 발견한 괴기스러운 눈알 모양의 목걸이. 그것과 눈을 마주치고 무언가 욕망하는 순간, 벗어날 수 없는 끔찍한 대가가 따를 것이다!
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless as Kate's husband has moved in with his wife. This leaves the problem of how to get promptly pregnant. Surely not with increasingly interesting Dave. They can't even agree on a baby's name - he thinks Fanny is silly and she finds Elvis, well, inconceivable.
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
