A Matter of Loaf and Death

A serial killer has murdered twelve bakers. While on a delivery for their bakery business, Wallace, Peter Sallis and Gromit save Piella Bakewell, Sally Lindsay — a former Bake-O-Lite pin-up model — and her nervous poodle Fluffles, Melissa Collier, when Piella’s bicycle brakes fail.

Gromit finds no problem with the brakes, but Wallace is smitten. He and Piella begin a romance, and Gromit is angered when she redecorates their house. Fluffles and Gromit share a sensitive moment when she returns Gromit’s possessions, discarded by Piella.

Wallace sends Gromit to return Piella’s forgotten purse that night. At Piella’s mansion, Gromit discovers numbered mannequins representing each of the murdered bakers, and a book of photographs; Wallace is her planned thirteenth victim, completing a baker’s dozen. When Gromit shows Wallace the evidence, Wallace is too distracted with his engagement to Piella to listen. She takes the book from Gromit and burns it to make sure the truth about her will not be revealed.

Gromit installs security measures in their home. After Piella tricks Wallace into thinking that Gromit bit her, Wallace muzzles Gromit and chains him up as a punishment. Gromit watches helplessly as Piella prepares to push Wallace into the grinder; Wallace is saved when Fluffles strikes Piella with a bag of flour. After an angry outburst about bakers, she leaves, but returns the next day to apologise with a cake. Gromit, suspicious, follows her home, where Piella captures him, reveals the cake contains a bomb, and throws him into a storeroom with Fluffles.

Escaping in Piella’s old Bake-O-Lite hot air balloon, Gromit and Fluffles arrive at Wallace’s house as he lights the candle on the cake. After a struggle, the cake falls onto the floor, revealing the bomb. Wallace and Gromit are attacked by Piella, who reveals she detests bakers after her weight gain ended her career as the Bake-O-Lite Girl. She is just about to kill Wallace with a wrench, but she is attacked by Fluffles in a forklift truck. In the chaos, the bomb falls into Wallace’s trousers; Gromit and Fluffles neutralise the explosion with dough while Piella leaps onto her balloon. Her weight drags the balloon into the crocodile enclosure in the zoo, and she is eaten by the crocodiles. Gromit tries to console Fluffles, but she leaves, ashamed of her participation in Piella’s crimes. Dejected, Wallace and Gromit decide to take their minds off things with a delivery, and are joined by Fluffles, who returns and reconciles with Gromit.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 11:11