Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Farr is approached by Barrett younger working class man, Fact2: Barrett In has been trying to reach Farr to appeal to him for help because he has fallen prey to blackmailers fact, Fact3: blackmailers have picture of Farr and Barrett in vehicle together, Fact4: Laura finds out about Barrett 's suicide, Fact5: police promises to give evidence in court
Output (English): A successful barrister, Melville Farr Dirk Bogarde has a thriving London practice. He is on course to become a Queens Counsel and people are already talking of his being appointed a judge. He is apparently happily married to his wife, Laura Sylvia Syms. Farr is approached by Boy Barrett Peter McEnery, a younger working class man with whom Farr has shared a romantic but nonsexual relationship. Farr rebuffs the approach, thinking Barrett wants to blackmail him about their relationship. In fact, Barrett has been trying to reach Farr to appeal to him for help because he has fallen prey to blackmailers who have a picture of Farr and Barrett in a vehicle together, in which Barrett is crying with Farrs arm around him. Barrett has stolen £2,300 from his employers to pay the blackmail, is being pursued by the police, and needs Farrs financial assistance to flee the country. After Farr intentionally avoids him, Barrett is picked up by the police, who discover why he was being blackmailed. Knowing it will be only a matter of time before he is forced to reveal the details of the blackmail scheme and Farrs role, Barrett hangs himself in a police cell. Learning the truth about Barrett, Farr takes on the blackmail ring and recruits a friend of Barretts to identify others the blackmailers may be targeting. The friend identifies a barber who is also being blackmailed, but the barber refuses to identify his tormentors. When one of the blackmailers visits the barber and begins to destroy his shop, he suffers a heart attack. Near death, he phones Farrs house and leaves a mumbled message naming another victim of the blackmailers. Farr contacts this victim, a famous actor, but the actor refuses to help him, preferring to pay the blackmailers to keep his secret. Laura finds out about Barretts suicide and confronts her husband. After a heated argument, during which Farr maintains that he has kept the promise he made to Laura when they married that he would no longer indulge his homosexual attraction, Laura decides that Farr has betrayed that promise in having a relationship with Barrett and decides to leave him. The blackmailers vandalise Farrs Chiswick property, painting FARR IS QUEER on his garage doors. Farr resolves to help the police catch them and promises to give evidence in court, despite knowing that the ensuing press coverage will certainly destroy his career. The blackmailers are identified and arrested. Farr tells Laura to leave before the ugliness of the trial, but that he will welcome her return afterward. She tells him that she believes she has found the strength to return to him. Farr burns the suggestive photograph of him and Barrett.