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Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

Can a single moment of mechanical failure shatter the carefully constructed illusions of a quiet academic life? A sudden collision forces a repressed professor to confront the messy, overlapping desires shared by his student and his student's fiancée.

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