When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
When a reluctant bride-to-be's fiance drops dead, she insists on going ahead with the wedding anyway - vowing to overcome public opinion, the law of the land, and her loved one's objections.