While in hospital with psoriasis, Marlow thinks back to the war when he was a little boy, and remembers seeing his mother having illicit sex in the Forest of Dean. His memories, his 30s style gumshoe fiction and his disease weave him an altered reality.
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Michael Gambon, Jim Carter, Patrick Malahide, Alison Steadman, Janet Suzman, Joanne Whalley, Imelda Staunton, David Ryall, Ron Cook, George Rossi, Janet Henfrey, Simon Chandler