When Alma Rattenbury, attractive wife of an elderly man, engages the handsome but uncouth Wood as odd-job boy it has tragic consequences, culminating in murder. 

The story follows the course of the trial, and also the lasting effect on a woman member of the jury. 

The play, first presented in London at Her Majesty’s Theatre in 1977, was partly inspired by the facts of a well known case.

“I mean you do look what I would call ‘fully grown’ … ” – Alma Rattenbury