A man discovers his love for his wife as he prepares to live without her

In wartime England, railway official Ruben Roberts discovers that his wife was sexually abused as a child by the Chairman of the Line, also her godfather. With her assistance, Ruben plots murder on the Brighton Express.

A terrified couple becomes trapped in what seems to be a replay of a sinister event that happened in their apartment in the past.

A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide.