Oscar®-winning actor Jeremy Irons plays Tom Crick, a high school history teacher who is having trouble connecting - with his class, with his wife. Faced with the sack from his boss (John Heard), Tom begins to interrupt his classes, with a series of extraordinary stories about his upbringing in the English Fens. However, one student (Ethan Hawke, Training Day, Dead Poets Society) proves to be more of a challenge, pushing Tom to make revelations about his past which still have a haunting grip on the his life, threatening to consume all around him.

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