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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.

A suffocating sense of domestic desperation clings to every frame of this damp, claustrophobic British thriller. What begins as a small-scale fraud spirals into a frantic, clumsy criminal scheme fueled by pure social ambition.

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