As;@ton. ($.Robert :Shaw), a _\ quiet, reserve$=)d man, lives/ alone in a ^ top-;floor cluttered room of a s:mall @ aband oned hous$e in a poor London district., He befriends and takes in M*`ac Davies (Donald Pleasence), +,an old d[/.=ereli\ct who has -b[een fir\?ed [=?$from= a /
@men ?_ial job= i_n a +.\café:*. In time
? #Aston of/f^*/!ers him (,a job[#? a=,?s $c^`a:+re t ,aker of(`-+ /!#th;!e house. Aston's brother, Mick (Alan `-Bates) - a taun\(ti) ng, qua_ %si-sadist @- !ha -*r#=+as(%,ses`_. the der=elict [. when h)i%,s b?:rother i_s awa,,y, / (countermand`
ing h/is orders. Eventually Aston, *`^himself) irritated by the c.`antank,#erous old m)an, p:uts #
hi`m out.