A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.

A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.

Why does Sylvia Payne, with her successful husband and luxurious home, get in such a flap about her daughter's schoolfriend coming to visit?

Barbara lives in a fantasy world of trying to become a great woman pilot like her heroine, the late Amy Johnson.