A mysterious Inpector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
       In 1912 pompous industrialist Arthur Birling, who has hopes of a knighthood, his superior wife Sybil and young son Eric are celebrating the engagement of daughter Sheila to eligible Gerald Croft when they are visited by blunt Inpector Goole. He tells them of the suicide of a young woman named Eva Smith and though they all claim not to have known her the inpector demontrates that each in their own way contributed to her downfall, by having her dismissed from work or, in the young men's cases, having sexual relationhips and then abandoning her. After Goole has left the youngster feel ashamed and the engagement is halted but Arthur Birling, doubting the inpector's authority, rings the local police station. This is the prelude to a double shock which will lead to the family's humiliation and ruin.

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