Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons stars in this drama adapted from the bestselling novel by Pascal Mercier.

Swiss professor Raimund Gregorius saves a young woman from jumping off a bridge and committing suicide. She leaves before he gets the chance to talk to her but in her haste forgets her coat and a book - a memoir written by Amadeu do Prado - inside which is a train ticket to Lisbon. Hoping it will lead him to the woman, Raimund boards the train to Lisbon and goes on a search to discover more about the author's life, which is seen in flashbacks.

He learns of Amadeu's time as a resistance fighter during the Salazar dictatorship and his relationship with his friends and the woman he loved, Estefânia. Along the way Raimund meets and befriends an optician, Mariana, and comes to some realisations about his own life.

Thriller starring Charlotte Rampling as a deranged young woman. Claire (Rampling) has been locked up by her greedy aunt who is after her niece's inheritance money. To evade her harmful circumstances, Claire has no choice but to run away. Along the way, she meets Louis (Bruno Cremer), who is also on the run. As the two become romantically involved, Claire attempts to understand her own identity.