Красотку Марию обвинили в убийстве любовника. Губная помада на рубашке, отпечатки пальцев на пистолете и духи на подушке — все улики против нее. И только проницательный инспектор Клузо уверен — девушка невиновна. Он освобождает ее из заключения и пытается за ней следить. К разочарованию инспектора, убийства продолжаются, и каждый раз улики опять указывают на Марию.
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
