Beautiful call girl Francesca Sarah English, twenty-eight, sister of supermodel/cokehead Marina Klaas is attending the cremation of psychotherapist Miriam Cluff who inadvertently fell out of a third storey window three weeks before she was due to have both cataracts removed. Vivaldi's Four Seasons concerto is being drowned out first by Gloria Gaynor's classic 'I will Survive, ' and then by The Trammps, 'Burn baby Burn, burn that Mother Down!' During the eulogies an explosion in a neighbouring chapel interrupts a speaker. "God!" retired Brigadier Teddy Dancing says. "If you ask me, blowing up the dead is a waste of damn fine ordnance."