The Outside Dog

Clean freak Marjory gradually comes to realise that her partner, who works in a slaughterhouse, is using his employment to cover the fact that he's a particularly evil criminal. Marjory finds her husband's sexual advances distasteful but does not reject them. She is so alienated from life that she subsumes all emotion in her domestic routine. She displays no outward signs of horror or shame when he's arrested and prosecuted, as it gets him out of the house. When he's found not guilty because of a lack of evidence, she's more concerned about the very fact that he's coming back to mess up her house again than with the fact that she'll be staying with a serial murderer.