Vida Hope

Trouble starts at a roadside garage when its middle-aged and temperamental owner with a much younger and frustrated wife hires a new mechanic.

Vivianne is a young woman ostracised when her boyfriend is arrested for murder, and is forced to rent a room in a decrepit boarding house for unmarried mothers ran by "Nellie" Alistair, a ruthless woman with sinister motives, who takes pleasure exploiting her vulnerable tenants.

During the course of their investigation into a hit-and-run case, police officers uncover a narcotics operation.

An amateur chemist gets a target on his back by textile tycoons and trade unions when his genius invention threatens to put them both out of business.