On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.
At the memorial for his father, WWII hero Major James Prentis (Alan Bates), John (Lambert Wilson) confesses a dark family secret to his own son Martin (David Oakes), something that he has harbored for over twenty years. A suspense drama, it explores the complex nature of heroism, betrayal, and father-son relationships. This is a reworking of the director's original 1993 film entitled simply, Shuttlecock.
절친한 친구 잭의 유언에 따라 그의 유골을 해변 마을 '말게이트'에 뿌려주기 위해 나머지 네 명의 노인들이 여행을 떠난다. 그들은 여행을 하면서 전쟁, 가족, 외도, 좋은 시절과 어려웠던 시절에 대한 옛 추억을 더듬는다. 그 추억을 서로 이야기 하면서, 그 동안 감춰져 왔던 어두운 비밀이 들춰진다. 그러면서 그들의 우정은 더더욱 견고해지고, 가장 가치 있고 소중한 것을 깨달아 간다.
Major James Prentis VC is a British spy of World War II and war hero who goes under the code name of "Shuttlecock". Alienated from his family and children, he ends up in a mental institution in Lisbon, Portugal.
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
