A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.
A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.