[1][2] Set to portray coastal Weymouth, filming took place in Yorkshire locations of Bridlington, Filey and Scarborough from June to mid-July, 2003.

[4][5][6] The film focuses on the trial of George Smith and flashbacks showing how he met each of his wives.

Whilst he is away he meets wealthy women, marries them within a few weeks, insures their lives and then drowns them in the bath.

He returns with the insurance money (sometimes he brings the latest victims' possessions to Edith as gifts).

At the trial it is revealed that his marriage to Edith is bigamous; in total he had eight wives, most of whom he left after stealing all of their possessions.