Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was being badly bullied, Abel suspects that a dangerous schoolboy initiation has gone horribly wrong and he secretly solicits the help of a sympathetic teacher, Betsy. He is warned off the investigation by his boss, as the school is a generous benefactor to the Police benevolent fund. Abel, however, cannot let the case go, not only because his own brother committed suicide years before, but also it seems that the spirit of the dead boy is leaving them clues as to what really happened that night.
The scandalously decadent John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), second Earl of Rochester, has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton). When he writes a scurrilous play that blisteringly and bawdily lampoons the very monarch who commissioned it, Charles II (John Malkovich), it leads to the Earl's banishment and eventual downfall.
Starring; Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Louisa Bawden, Tom Burke, Richard Coyle, Susie Gossling Valerio
Directed by Laurence Dunmore
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.