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Year of production : 2015

Director(s) : Andrew HAIGH
Writer(s) : Andrew HAIGH
Cast : Charlotte RAMPLING, Tom COURTENAY

Producer(s) : Tristan GOLIGHER (The Bureau)

Married for 45 years, without children, Kate and
Geoff Mercer are poised to celebrate their wedding
anniversary with a party, when Geoff receives a
letter that shakes both of them. The letter, from
Switzerland, lets him know that a body has been
found: that of Katya, his girlfriend before Kate,
who died falling into a fissure in a glacier when the
couple were on a walking holiday in 1962. Geoff
tells Kate that he was regarded as Katya’s next-of-kin,
since they had been pretending to be married.
Though Kate continues to prepare for the party,
and the couple shares some romantic excitement
about it, she becomes increasingly disturbed by Geoff’s preoccupation with Katya. Geoff begins
smoking again; reminisces at length about his
carefree time with his previous love; seeks out
photographs of her in the attic; and complains
bitterly about the way his contemporaries and excolleagues have aged. Under Kate’s questioning,
he states that he would have married Katya had she
lived. While Geoff is at a work lunch, Kate searches
the attic and finds slides of Katya, which reveal that
she was pregnant at the time of her death. As the
celebrations grow closer, they delve further into
their past, leaving their future in question.