Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from…

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes…

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker’s assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid…

A little girl accidentally breaks her mother’s favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.