Philip Marlow comes to Durham. A retired teacher is given the task of tracking down the errant and sexy daughter of an ex-colleague but things don't go quite to plan.
In a village in the Yorkshire Wolds during the early years of the 20th century a ploughman marries the local beauty but this is not to the liking of the landlord of the village pub who plans revenge.
A group of soldiers rest in a French village in 1917... one of them, a miserly man called 'Orrible Jones is forced to face a drunken and violent turd-walloper to save the honour of a French girl.