Plot: The successful, honest and methodic lawyer James Manning works in London and is living in the country with his beloved wife Anne. Anne decides to have a party at their home, and the husband of their housemaid Maggie is hit by a car at the same time nearby her house and Maggie witnesses a Land Rover. James associates the scratch on the car of his acquaintance Bill Bule with the accident, and forces him to confess and promise to go to the police on the next morning. When he arrives home, Anne tells him that she was driving the car; further, Bill is her lover. James changes his opinion and decides to support the lie, while a persistent detective is investigating the case and the list of guests.
Alternative Plot: James Manning (Tom Wilkinson), a successful business lawyer, and his younger wife, Anne (Emily Watson), split time between a London apartment and a lush country estate. The couple's seemingly perfect marriage gets complicated when their handsome and wealthy neighbor, Bill (Rupert Everett), returns to town and Anne begins sleeping with him. After Bill and Anne are linked to a hit-and-run death, James, aware of the affair, must choose whether to protect his wife or come forward to the police.
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