Manchester, the present. Michael divides his time between the job center and the pub. A chance meeting with Lee, an introduction to her Uncle Ian and a heavy night on the lash lead to a job working the door at a Northern Quarter massage parlor. After witnessing the violent death of one of the punters, Michael experiences blood-drenched flashbacks and feels himself being sucked into a twilight world that he doesn't understand but that is irresistibly attractive. When he eventually finds out what goes on in the room below Cloud 9, Michaels' life will never be the same again.
세상과 자신을 향한 끓어오르는 분노로 가득 찬 남자 ‘조셉’. 누구 하나 건드리면 터질 것 같은 위태로운 일상을 보내던 그는 어느 날 도망치듯 자선가게에 숨어들고, 점원 ‘한나’의 기도를 통해 고통을 위로 받고 안정을 얻는다. 그녀의 온화한 미소에 폭언으로 답한 조셉이지만, 묘한 매력에 이끌려 다시 자선가게를 찾게 되고, 구제받을 수 없을 것처럼 보이던 마음의 문도 조금씩 열린다. 그러나 한나와 가까워질수록 평온해 보이기만 한 그녀의 삶에도 어두운 비밀이 있음을 알게 되는데
Dramatisation of the true story of the notorious 'acid bath murderer' John Haigh, who murdered women and disposed of their bodies in vats of acid in the 1940s. He was only caught when the gallstones of one of his victims failed to dissolve in the acid and were detected by the pathologist who examined the residue from the acid bath.
