巴里（罗里·金尼尔 Rory Kinnear 饰）是小镇上的教区议员，生前的他再也无法想到的是，自己的意外猝死会在风平浪静的小镇里掀起怎样的狂澜。霍华德（迈克尔·刚本 Michael Gambon 饰）和雪莉（朱莉娅·麦肯茨 Julia McKenzie 饰）是镇上的模范夫妻、西蒙（Richard Glover 饰）是个喜欢在老婆和孩子身上发泄怒火的暴力狂、沃尔校长（西蒙·迈克伯尼 Simon McBurney 饰）整日神经兮兮，每一个人都觉得自己是巴里所留下的职位的最佳继承者，并做好了十足的准备，为了得到他们所想要的东西而争得你死我活。
April 2020 – Lockdown. Etienne, a film director, and his brother Paul, a music journalist, are confined together in their childhood home with their new partners Morgane and Carole. Every room, every object, reminds them of their childhood, and the memories of the absents - their parents, their neighbors…This compels them to measure the distance that separates them from each other and the roots they share, those of their ground zero. As the world around them is becoming increasingly unsettling, unreality, and even a disturbing strangeness, invades their daily gestures and actions.
