Second feature by director Tom Ford tells a story about a woman forced to confront the demons of her past as she is sucked into a thriller novel written by her ex-husband.
A successful Los Angeles art gallery owner married to a handsome young doctor, Susan finds her paradise troubled when a manuscript arrives at her desk, written by her long-estranged ex-husband, Tony. With her current husband away in New York, Susan opens the manuscript and is instantly propelled into the fictional life of a book character whose family trip to a summer house is about to turn into a nightmare. As Susan plunges deeper and deeper into the book, she is forced to examine her own past. Oscillating seamlessly between Susan’s reality and the story from the book, Ford slowly and meticulously turns the screws, delving into suspense while keeping a firm hand on the disturbing drama, delivering an effective thriller and simultaneously a psychological study of a woman in crisis.