In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.

A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.

'Comedy concerning a bank clerk who uses his inheritance to fund a serious drams which, ironically, succeeds as a burlesque.' (BFI)