The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
- Genre: Drama, Mystery
- Studio: Pandora Cinema, British Screen Productions, Palace Pictures, Film4 Productions
- Keyword: based on novel or book, 1970s, family history, teacher, memory, high school teacher, history teacher, norfolk, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
- Cast: Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Grant Warnock, Lena Headey, Callum Dixon, Ethan Hawke