Sylvia Syms

London detective recalls 1930s poverty. Hetty battles brother's criminality, manipulative mother favoring racketeer Wilkie for gain. Slums contrasted with new high-rises.

A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about 1) the revenge of a murdered wife, 2) a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, 3) a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and 4) a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.