Geraldine Newman

Martin is a committee man. He has numerous schemes and committees organised around the neighbourhood. He is so obsessive about every detail of everything he does he is driving his long suffering wife, Anne, slowly crazy. Then the new neighbour Paul arrives. He has a more worldly outlook than those who live under Martin's organisational spell. There is an immediate clash of personalities because Martin, unlike Paul, treats everything so seriously.

The social rivalry between two women in the 1930s when Lucia moves to the small English town of Tilling. (imdb)