Season 1

Can love really drive you mad? When a young architect falls in love with a beautiful woman who won't respond to his calls or letters, his grasp of reality slowly falls apart.

Michael and Gladys Herbert are a quiet, respectable, married couple who live in a large house with a garden somewhere in the English countryside. They are enjoying a game of Scrabble one Sunday afternoon with their friend, Colonel Eddie Phelps, and niece, Phyllis, when in walks the family cat carrying a pair of human fingers in its mouth.

He had been working at another area of the farm when he heard Susan's cries for help, but he could not dig fast enough to save his daughter. Choked with tears and feelings of guilt, Ernie rushes out of the room after describing what happened, Susan goes into shock and John is left numb and helpless, unable to fathom the meaning of this horrible event.

Sylvia and Luc Thomas are husband and wife journalists who have never had children, so they decide to adopt and shelter an elderly couple that they have selected from the neighboring nursing home. Rose and Fred Berck, the elderly couple, arrive one afternoon with all their belongings and are welcomed with open arms by Sylvia and Luc.