Sidney discovers he was the last person to see a woman alive during a drunken night, when he was beaten up outside what turns out a brothel, whose pimp is a stooge, apparently for a Cambridge councilor. While Sid struggles to remember what happened, worrying Leonard, Geordie becomes concerned for his friend's troubled state of mind. Sidney reconnects and falls for Violet Todd, a black woman involved in the Civil Rights Movement. But she plans soon to return to America, so a future together appears impossible, yet Sidney chooses the hard way and plans to emigrate with her.
—KGF Vissers