When the company's 87-year-old proprietor learns that a muckraking local weekly is about torun a scathing article about a company employee, a beautiful Russian with a long swan-like neckand delicate Tartar eyes, who was killed by a suicide-bomber and whose body remains unclaimed, he directs the human-resources manager to find out what happened andto make amends, no matter what the cost.
Perhaps most importantly, it gives the government the chance to try to break out of the awful run of bad news that has hung around its neck since the economy fell into recession and the Budget collapsed into omnishambles.