A British Farce.

It's 1986 in rural Witherington. Dim-witted politicians plan the annual community party, blissfully unaware of a clandestine mind-control program and a far-reaching communist plot which could spark a second Cold War. A former ballerina is found dead and local gossipmongers and armchair conspiracy theorists question if the dead woman's mysterious death and missing foot could be connected to sex, religion and politics. A seance is held with tragic results and interest in her death fizzles out when a councillor gives priority to his re-election. 

Retired British spy Tallulah Millstone, in between dealing with her paranoid MI6 ex-husband and planning her cryonics project for eventual departure to the Afterlife, is giving English cookery lessons to a charming North Korean writer and risks becoming politically indoctrinated over a hot stove. Her cryonics project is on the back-burner and she could find herself six feet under and ex-communicated from the church. 

Leftist journalist Roland Wheeler is falling in love with Tallulah's niece and an unemployed Russian spy. He writes politically-incorrect articles; is an embarrassment to his right-wing councillor father; and a compulsive liar who can't resist temptation. He's not exactly what Tallulah wants for her niece Scarlett.

The untimely death of the only policeman in Witherington, Constable Ernest Barnstable, sees him depart to the Afterlife where he's harassed by the dead woman to investigate her suspected murder. He's listing sinners for the seven terraces of deadly sins in Purgatory while his cantankerous investigation team is pushing him beyond his limits to follow up on an international murder plot - with government establishments and secret services involved in espionage. Desperate for closure on crimes, the constable needs to find a psychic through which to channel information to the nearest police station and he still needs to find the dead woman's foot. As a Medium, Roland seems a good choice. But he's a pathological liar. 

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