What
at first seems very routine, even boring work, becomes much more. Her job is to
listen as an established MI5 agent recruits and conducts meetings with British collaborators
of the Third Reich and Hitler. Juliet’s job is to secretly listen and
transcribe into minutes the contents of those meetings. The clandestine
meetings take place in an apartment owned by MI5 which is next door to the
meetings.
Soon
she is tapped to assume a new identity and infiltrate the fascist sympathizers.
The real danger is to be discovered by the collaborators.
Interspersed
with these war recollections we find Juliet postwar, ten years later, working
for the BBC and occasionally operating a safe-house for MI5. At this point she
is surprisingly world-weary, laconic and jaded.
Juliet
begins to see several figures from her past. One central one refuses to
acknowledge her. Suspicious and fearful, she attempts to investigate and finds
she cannot escape the past. Surprise ending.
