One evening in 1906 a chubby little boy of seven, son of a London greengrocer, is taken by his father to visit the local police station. There he suddenly finds himself, inexplicably, locked up for a crime he hasn't committed - or has he? Blinking into sunlight, traumatized by his overnight stay, he is told by his father the next morning: "Now you know what happens to naughty little boys!" But the incident is the catalyst for a series of events that will scar, and create, the world's leading Master of Terror in the century to come... The boy is Alfred Hitchcock.