Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

• Scion Films
• Studio Babelsberg
• Ralph Fiennes
• Rachel Weisz
• Danny Huston
• Bill Nighy
• Pete Postlethwaite
• Richard McCabe
• Donald Sumpter
• Juliet Aubrey