"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.

"Grace's doctor is worried about the state of her joints..." A small-town English widow, facing financial troubles after her husband's suicide, turns to agriculture of an illegal kind.