Krenford

Meri Smit priezzhaet pogostit v provintsialnyy gorodok Krenford k svoim podrugam Matilde i Debore Dzhenkins. Osnovnaya chast mestnogo naseleniya — vdovy i starye devy. Vsya ih sotsialnaya zhizn podchinena strogomu kodeksu obyazatelnyh k soblyudeniyu pravil, poryadkov i obychaev. Mestnyh muzhchin — torgovtsev i remeslennikov — chopornoe i tselomudrennoe zhenskoe obschestvo po bolshey chasti ignorir...