A psychiatrist takes up a post in a mental institution, where his bored and unfulfilled wife befriends a male patient. However, when the disturbed man - an artist who murdered his unfaithful partner - is given a work assignment close to the family's home, their friendship rapidly turns into a passionate affair. Drama set in the 1950s, with Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville, Ian McKellen and Marton Csokas.

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.