艾薇(朱迪·科默 Jodie Comer 饰)有着一段悲惨的过去,她曾经被人囚禁在地窖之中,长达十三年之久。十三年后,艾薇终于逃出魔窟,报警求援,艾利尔特(理查德·兰金 Richard Rankin 饰)和搭档丽莎(瓦伦·凯恩 Valene Kane 饰)受理了此案,他们想从艾薇的口中获取更多的线索,然而,艾薇的证言仍旧缺少着最有力的支持,那就是确凿的证据。
除了要应付警方的讯问,艾薇还必须面对自己内心的黑暗和社会的扭曲与不公,更重要的是,她不知该以怎样的姿态,回到阔别已久的家庭之中。一位名为菲比(Isabel Shanahan 饰)的十岁女孩的失踪吸引了警方的注意,目击者将矛头指向了名为马克(彼得·麦克唐纳德 Peter McDonald 饰)的男子。。The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich| his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.。克莱蒙一个人生活很多年了,从古巴旅游回来后,他并不是一个人回来的。他遇见了一位也在那边度假的比他小25岁的导游,艾斯佩兰萨。他们彼此相爱了,并打算结婚。而克莱蒙的孩子们想尽办法想要阻止这场婚姻。他们很肯定这个女人只是贪图克莱蒙的财产。气氛如决堤的大坝,积压多年的情绪喷薄而出,现在所有的事情都摆到了台面上。晚,但又为时不晚,他们都面临着究竟什么是爱的问题。所有的人,包括克莱蒙,发现对彼此并没有足够的了解。。