But there was no obituary because the day that I died was also the day I started to live.But that comes later."The setting was a big city, where Patience Phillips (Halle Berry) worked in an art department job ("the practical version of my passion") as a graphic designer of ads for beauty cream...to the end of the line." Its tagline from a poster declared: "You can""t kiss away a Murder!"The sensational film was unlike many other films of its time - its storyline of a deliberate and brutal crime inspired by adultery and the promise of insurance money was considered innately amoral, objectionable, and distasteful by the censorious Hays Office (a "blueprint for the perfect murder").Now this time, Agatha, you""ve got to just tell him to stop.Now, it""s his smoking gave me asthma...If he don""t (quit), I""m goin"" on the county...Imagine a man trying to take care of his family, by going to theatre bank lines, working puzzle contests, and suggesting slogans.The O""Hara family, in a hushed, church-like scene lit by flickering candlelit, offers evening prayers.