This model of British farces focuses on an extraordinarily ordinary taxi driver, John Smith, and his sexy secret: he has a loving wife, named Mary, in a flat in Wimbleton, and another loving wife, Barbara, in a different flat only four minutes away, in Streatham. A heroic impulse thrusts John into the spotlight and under the scrutiny of both Wimbleton and Streatham detectives. John must rush back and forth between his two wives, trying to preserve the marital balance he has so cleverly constructed – prompting, in the words of the New York Post ,”virtually continuous laughter.”