The Yellow Balloon plot
"It takes you step by step ... fear by fear ... to the shattering heights of Suspense !"
When Frankie plays with his boyfriend in the ruins of a bombed-out area in a London neighborhood, his boyfriend dies while playing. Frankie feels guilty about death. Criminal Len, who has just killed a bar owner during a robbery, learns of the accident. He befriends Frankie, but soon blackmails him and forces him to steal money from his parents. When Len suspects that Frankie is making a connection between him and the murdered bar owner, Len wants to kill Frankie. Frankie runs away.