Masterpiece Theatre "Point Counter Point", based on the 1928 novel by Aldous Huxley, is a five-episode dramatization of life, love and violent death in the Roaring 20's. Novelist Philip Quarles decides to write a story about the lives and loves of ... (more)his friends who are living it up during the Roaring 20's. While Walter pursues the seductive Lucy, his pregnant mistress cries herself to sleep.