Two British playwrights, two periods of creative deadlock, and two encounters with the past that change their fates.
To meet tight deadlines, successful British screenwriter Greg Dawson—the hero of the novel “In the Light of Day”—sets off to work on a new project at a secluded hotel on the Cornish coast. An unexpected meeting with an elderly married couple he knew in his youth returns Greg to his hopeful pre-war days and makes him wonder at what point in his life it went down the wrong path.
Famous playwright Martin Cheeverl is going through a creative standstill and decides to give up writing forever. But in an old theatre in the north of England, where he comes for the premiere of his last play, Martin is suddenly shown a vision of a tragedy that occurred there a century earlier involving a young actress, Jenny Villiers.