Summary
In Deep is a frantic, 1920s domestic farce that explores the immediate moral collapse of a man who views his marriage as a prison. When his formidable wife departs for a rural retreat, the protagonist doesn't just relax; he accelerates into a life of reckless hedonism alongside a similarly misguided companion. Their liberation is short-lived, as a high-speed chase with a suspicious traffic officer forces them into a labyrinth of increasingly desperate lies. To avoid arrest, they manufacture a domestic emergency, recruiting a young woman to play the 'dying' wife and, in a stroke of sheer silent-era absurdity, a monkey to play their child. The film serves as a chaotic study of how one small lie necessitates a mountain of madness, culminating in a collision between the fake family and the very real, very angry returning matriarch.
This is the story of the henpecked husband, whose wife goes to the country and who determines to let no grass grow under his feet while she is away. As a consequence he brings a lot of trouble upon himself and his boy friend. They are arrested for speeding and as an excuse offer a sick wife and child. The cop is suspicious and makes them display the wife and child. A young lady friend is inducted to serve as the wife and a monkey as the child. At about the time the cop is satisfied everything is all right the irate wife unexpectedly returns and the complications arise. The cop overhears the retelling of the ruse and the whole gang are rustled off to the station house.
