女警与酗酒丈夫闹离婚。某夜,女警交通肇事撞死丈夫后逃逸。第二天得知曾经酗酒的老师,成为撞死丈夫的替罪羊。法医发现女警丈夫被撞两次的事实,但选择隐瞒事实。女警不忍老师定罪并被开除公职,决定自首认罪。
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。