'Your chick was a lilyskin.' A woman is murdered and dumped on a London common. When her identity is discovered, the police also find out that she was a 'coloured' woman passing as white. Suspicion falls on her fiance David (Paul Massie) who had just found out she was pregnant. As the Superintendant (Nigel Patrick) and his subordinant (Michael Craig) investigate they uncover various levels of finely honed racism.
A fine drama that investigates the issue of racism, and the insecurity and fear it engenders, from both sides of the coin. From the racist policeman, to the landlady distraught she let a room to a non-white. It paints a hard-hitting, complex picture, and a fascinating one about prejudice in 1950's Britain. Prejudice that even the film cannot extricate itself from at times.
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