Young Adam

“Everyone has a past. Everyone has a secret.”

Joe Taylor (Ewan McGregor) works the deck of a river barge, and one morning the crew drags a dead woman out of the water. He keeps quiet about how much he knows. David Mackenzie sets him among the barge's owners, Ella (Tilda Swinton) and Les Gault (Peter Mullan), and the film is about a man who lets other people's lives take the weight of what he won't say.