Bodily Harm — Kim Hunter

At a young age, Samantha Whitman is left all alone in the world. Securing lodgings at the home of Doris Franklin, former mistress of the late notorious gangster Archie Miller, Sammy slowly starts to enjoy life again. After a chance meeting, she is swept off of her feet by a handsome stranger and is totally taken in by his charm. A whirlwind romance ensues and through no real fault of her own and only due to her desperate need to be loved, Samantha soon finds herself a prisoner in a brutal, loveless marriage. Like so many before her, she hides it well from those she has regular contact with and to most on the outside world, she is happy and content. Suffering in silence for several years at the hands of her sadistic husband Gerry, Sammy always has a smile and painstakingly conceals the cuts and bruises. Told many times, that if she ever tries to leaves he will kill her, Sammy is broken and scared. Finally, she realises that things have to change or she will inevitably die. Now Sammy faces a dilemma in the choice she has to make, does she walk away and spend the rest of her life looking over her shoulder or take the law into her own hands? Finally, she realises that things have to change or she will inevitably die.