His Masters Voice

Alice, a girl in her early twenties, is unhappy about her life. Having wanted to live in London even as a child, she is still stuck in the hamlet where she has lived since she was born, appropriately named Backwater. Here she takes care of her mother, who fell ill shortly after her father had left and disappeared. On an otherwise uneventful day, a strange man disturbs the wretched peace by running into her house and fainting on the doorstep. He introduces himself as the Doctor and claims to travel in a time machine. Alice follows him into the wooden box he says is his spaceship and discovers an amazing reality. The Doctor takes her to London for the first time in her life, where he sets out to investigate local riots, which Alice had not thought much of. Overwhelmed by all the impressions and scared by what might happen next, she backs out and returns home. Later, when she sees the eccentric man's blue box carried away by a crowd of insurgents, she knows something has to be done. Soon she will discover that this is much more than just a riot.