From the director of Bridget Jones’s Diary and the producers of Girl With A Pearl Earring comes a heart-rending and defiant tale set in the aftermath of a dramatic terrorist attack in London.
A spirited young mother (Michelle Williams) lives with her husband, Lenny, and five year old boy in a concrete tower block overlooking a beautiful Georgian square, home of journalist Jasper Black (Ewan McGregor).
Sometimes, beside herself with fear when Lenny is away on bomb disposal duties, she seeks solace in a couple of drinks in the local pub. And sometimes, if someone charming and sympathetic like Jasper comes on to her, she’ll go further.
On May Day, after seeing her boys off, she meets Jasper again and brings him back to her flat. Minutes later she can only watch as live TV coverage shows footage of a major terrorist attack in the city.
In panic and hoping against hope that her fears for her family are unfounded, she makes Jasper drive towards the incident. Fighting through the crowds and chaos to the very heart of the nightmare, she is forced to confront the awful truth. In the aftermath, struggling to deal with her guilt and grief at the loss of her family, she rejects Jasper’s attempts to comfort her.
Instead she finds herself drawn to her husband’s boss, Terrence (Matthew Macfadyen), the police officer in charge of the investigation.
Jasper leads the young mother to the twelve-year-old son of one of the suicide bombers. He is blissfully ignorant of his father’s terrible deed. She embarks on a friendship with the boy that could just be both his salvation and her own.
But everyone’s fate hangs on the real truth behind the events of that day, a truth which the authorities, including Terrence, will do their utmost to keep secret.
Incendiary is a powerfully intimate and ultimately life-affirming emotional drama set against a vision of terror-stricken London.
Starring: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen