a woman suffer mental trauma twenty year after be rap at least that the most obtainable synopsis for this bizarre but entirely unengaging drama . theresa russell play the bored housewife and trap in a passionless marriage with doctor christopher lloyd . when a man claim to be her son stolen from her arm at birth after the rape appear out of nowhere and know an awful lot about her and it release the trauma she have keep hide for so long . what should be intrigue be anything but . it be impossible to care for russell because she embarrassingly bad . lloyd have nothing to do ( never mind nothing funny ) . the young oldman be show up in this most difficult of role . that probably thanks to the director more than himself . roeg output be horribly inconsistent . you would have hop that work from a script by the late and brilliant dennis potter would have inspire him to make a masterpiece . he can not even keep the film on the ground . but then again and the american never get a grasp on potter humour . and roeg have hardly be worth watch since he go to the state .