For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.
Life-long socialist Roger Banks has mixed feelings about going to London to receive the OBE from the Queen. While his family are happy that his work for community has been honoured, Roger feels he has betrayed his working class roots.
Liverpool primary school teacher Tony Scannell stuns his family by announcing he is going to be ordained as a priest in a Roman Catholic Church. Tony's father James, a Communist, and girlfriend Margaret are left devastated.