When deeply conservative English local Edith Swan and fellow residents
begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious
profanities, her rowdy, foul-mouthed, Irish migrant neighbor Rose
Gooding is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a
national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women—led by
Police Officer Gladys Moss—begin to investigate the crime themselves,
they suspect something is amiss and Rose may not be the culprit after
all.