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Frank Contrell Boyle's best-selling novel gets adapted for the screen by director Andy De Emmory in this drama starring Trevor Eve and Eve Myles. When a flood threatens to destroy the priceless works of art in London's National Gallery, senior curator Quentin Lester (Eve) suggests that the paintings be immediately relocated to a decommissioned slate mine in the mountains of Wales. Relocating to a quiet, nearby town to keep watch over the paintings, Quentin inadvertently causes mass chaos when he mistakes a local child for an art history prodigy, prompting all of the locals to try and claim the treasured works of art for themselves.