Bogarde plays a man whom we (and the little, tow-headed boy) discover in a cellar, standing over the body of a man he has just killed. The dead man, as we find out, was his wife's lover ("why do you think I married a sailor to begin with?" she asks him when he confronts her in their one scene together). The boy drops his teddy bear, and Bogarde grabs him--gently--and they start...running. As it turns out, and as Chris (Bogarde) knows right away, somehow, the little boy doesn't want to be found--either. He's being lashed by his adoptive parents--who look like such nice, middle-class English people.