Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.

• london, england
• husband wife relationship
• based on novel or book
• ransom
• kidnapping
• medium
• working class
• black and white
• mental illness
• occult
• séance
• british new wave
• loss of child
• stillbirth