Based on Emile Zola's 'La Bete Humaine', this stylish film noir is set in Britain during the Blitz. Ruben Roberts discovers he owes everything - job and home - to the sexual favours forced upon his wife by her rich and powerful godfather. Assisted by his wife, Ruben murders him on the Brighton Express. A witness has to be silenced.

Frankie is a car park attendant with his eye on the future. Cathy is his friend and she and her husband Paul are in trouble. But as Frankie always says, "Something will turn up!