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Jeremy Brett, Robin Ellis, and Susan Fleetwood star in director Kevin Billington's adaptation of author Ford Madox Ford's non-linear tale of marriage, deception, and infidelity. Soon after meeting in a German spa, a British couple and an American couple form a pleasant friendship. In the weeks that follow, the bond between the two couples gradually begins to erode as the deceptive veneer of normalcy is stripped away to reveal that nothing is what it appears to be on the surface.