Returning home from a routine shopping trip, Robert and Dorothy find that the house has been burgled, along with another three doors down the road. But having forgotten his credit card and popped home to collect it, Robert worries that he'll have been seen and suspected of the crime...

When the bin men refuse to empty Dorothy's rubbish without payment, all hell breaks loose. With house's drains blocked, Dorothy calls an official from the council to come and sort the matter. But his interference merely serves to bring the two parties closer together - against him!

Dorothy enlists Robert's help in bringing a young but already estranged married couple back together.