Barry Laird

Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia into Jean's world.

英国の片田舎に暮らす平凡な女子高生が、突然発生したゾンビで溢れる町で冴えない同級生たちと繰り広げるサバイバルを描いた異色の青春ソンビ・ミュージカル。

ノーベル賞を受賞することになった世界的作家の夫と、彼の作品を密かに執筆していた妻。受賞を機に崩壊する夫婦の関係と妻の決意を、華麗な授賞式の裏側に描く。グレン・クローズが圧巻の演技を見せる心理サスペンス。