On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.

• Columbia Pictures
• Ralph Fiennes
• Julianne Moore
• Stephen Rea
• James Bolam
• Ian Hart
• Jason Isaacs
• Deborah Findlay
• Sam Bould