Dr Alistair Crown, a Harley Street psychiatrist, is so mean that he steals flowers from a cemetery to take to his wife who has just had a baby- and fails to remove the card that reads 'To darling Doris, gone but not forgotten.' He doesn't feel guilty about it- even when the baby is christened Doris. For Alistair Crown is going to have a lot more to feel guilty about. And guilt is something he simply cannot face...