The film opens in a bleak police station where celebrated war correspondent Kate Rafter (Seagrove) faces questions from a psychiatrist, Dr Shaw (Kurylenko), as they work through the painful events of Rafter’s life. A horrific incident in war-torn Iraq and the death of her mother (Steed) have brought a haunted Rafter home to Herne Bay, a place she believed she had escaped forever. Her resentful sister (Friel) has not made her sister welcome and her forbearing husband Paul (Miles) fails to broker peace. Whilst packing up her mother’s belongings from her childhood home, Rafter comes to believe there is something strange and terrifying happening in the house next door.
1966年夏天,迎接暑假到来的三姊弟,一如往常地嬉戏玩乐,与家人讨论暑假的旅游计划。看似和乐的家庭,直到母亲意外得知父亲不可告人的秘密后,逐渐崩解。这回透过小孩们的无奈答话,充分展现二战之后逐渐弥漫的保守氛围,并讥讽当时社会的道德假面。
本集收录新作《造了不开启的房间》《有内情的KTV》及过去二十年名作选《交出手臂》《身后的女人》《深夜的镜像》《悬崖下》《书本招来的幽灵》《出租车司机的经历》《多出一人的电梯》《颜之道》。