Astute businesswoman Ellen Garth) holds all the purse strings over her weak-willed husband Raymond, to whom she is completely devoted. Despite a bad hip that requires the use of a cane, Ellen has a very active sexual relationship with her husband, who doesn't mind being dominated since she continuously dotes on him with her money.
Problems arise when Ellen's young niece, Alice Taylor, arrives home from art school in Paris, showing a recently developed, somewhat unorthodox, attraction to her all-too-willing uncle, until after the pair are caught in a tender embrace by her insightful aunt, who threatens to disown her faithless husband if he doesn't abide by her rules.
When Ellen makes plans to spend a week alone in Italy, her unscrupulous attorney, Richard Corbett, who has a prison record and has been caught forging her name on checks, conspires with Raymond to make sure she has an unfortunate 'accident' due to her notoriously poor driving skills. Unfortunately, Raymond cannot resist the opportunity to drown his wife in her bathroom sink, burying the corpse behind their isolated country cottage, left to him in her will provided he spend the rest of his life there.
Corbett carries out his part in the plot by hiring an actress to portray Ellen, seen leaving England by plane, then cold-bloodedly dispatching her on the continent. Raymond gets no time to relax however; he remembers that Ellen believed in life after death (she put herself into trances - I don't remember anything about a 'life after death' belief), and there are signs that she is not content to remain in her grave.
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