A Dramatic Society is assembling on the stage of a church hall to rehearse a production of a mystery-thriller under its somewhat dictatorial director Philip Stephens. Events and strains within the company however more than equal those in the play they are to present. Philip's wife is friendlier than is wise with a young man of the company a prowler is in the neighbourhood and attacks one of the girls an unpleasant caretaker tries a little blackmail and one of the women seems to know him from the past.4 women 4 men