Oscar-nominated Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's horror mystery is an adaptation of Welsh novelist Sarah Waters' 2009 gothic novel of the same name. In 1947, a stoic doctor (Domhnall Gleeson) arrives at Hundreds Hall manor to investigate a reported haunting. He soon finds that the ghosts surrounding the Ayers family (Charlotte Rampling, Ruth Wilson, and Will Poulter) have bearings on his own past.