When a private procedure goes wrong, Otto, Charlie and Jean have a brush with the law, increasing Charlie’s desperate sense that he stands unsupported, alone. As Jean and Richard’s marriage crumbles, Richard embraces his newly-returned first love, Margaret, as Jean embraces her new role of housewife. But for consummate housewife, Elizabeth, the very foundation of life begins to crack when the sinister Inspector Mulligan pays a visit to her home.