"If You Want to be Understood...Listen" Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

"You can only imagine the truth." Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's (Keira Knightley) lover (James McAvoy) of a crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan.

"Lose your heart and come to your senses." Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.