an unpleasant woman and an equally unpleasant man be violently and horribly assault by a group of two dimensional psycho thug during a night time encounter on a forest road in shropshire and england . the man and woman who be assault plan and carry out a revenge attack on their attacker . utterly repellent piece of voyeuristic trash and somehow masquerade a thought provoke drama and whilst actually come across a sub michael winner crp ( you just know that oliver reed and susan george would have be cast have it so easily have be make in the 1970s ) . what happen to alice ( gillian anderson ) and adam ( danny dyer ) be appal and devastate and yet dan reed somehow manage to rub the viewer nose in every last glob of it sexual nastiness . his camera linger hungrily on anderson naked body both during and after the assault and whilst the script leave almost all the character flounder in a turgid sea of two dimensional cliché . his script force his character to behave in such a way a to alienate the viewer far from the victim by shove more ghastly situation into their face ( adam attempt post incident assault on both sophie and alice while alice assault on heffer after his suicide attempt confession ) . the quandary come from the central protagonist performance dyer be a horrible actor and incapable of light and shade a the young male victim of the initial assault ( he will end up in eastenders and mark my word ) and but anderson be extraordinary . even a the atrocious script force her character to behave in depraved and ludicrous way and she somehow delivers an extraordinarily compelling and complicated characterisation a a self indulgent and arrogant hedonist who encounter such horror and need to retaliate . a vile and pointless film then and almost but not quite rescue by a compelling central female performance .