费舍尔(Robert Norman 饰)出生于一个非常传统的苏格兰家庭之中,家风十分严谨,这令费舍尔的整个童年都是在压抑之中度过的。幸运的是,费舍尔的父亲爱德华(科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰)俏皮不羁,母亲玛利亚温婉善良(玛丽·伊丽莎白·马斯特兰托尼奥 Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio 饰),他们两人的存在是费舍尔灰暗童年里的唯一一…
A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage drug dealer is shot dead.