His 38-year-old wife (Helen Mirren) and her teen-age lover are accused of the crime.
Most of all, it has teen-age lovers rebelling against obtuse and destructive parents.
In the end, the English public rendered its verdict: no married woman who took a teen-age lover could go unpunished.
In a matter of weeks, the police were charging the murder to his 38-year-old wife, Alma, and her teen-age lover, George Bowman.
But these particular teen-age lovers are on a fire escape, and Ms. Anders's camera imagines them there.
The girl's father is at a loss how to talk about abstinence when he, too, had a teen-age lover.
(Ages 12 and up) In the title story of this eight-story collection, teen-age lovers talk to their unborn child, who will be given up for adoption.
(A writhing-cheesecake presentation of the Oscar-winning song from "Aladdin" suggested that the film's teen-age lovers had wandered into a bordello.)
Emme Shaw and Jeremy Silver's most affecting work is as the teen-age lovers.
A woman and her teen-age lover are surprised by the woman's husband who has come home early owing to a sudden strike at the tuna factory.