Silk is based on the bestselling novel by Alessandro Baricco. Herve Joncour (Michael Pitt) lives in a small town hit by hard times. But a local silkworm magnate comes up with a solution to help the struggling town.He enlists the help of Herve to smuggle rare silkworms back from a remote corner of Japan.Upon returning home he is reunited with his beautiful wife Helene (Keira Knightley) but their inability to have a child has caused a distance between them.This distance is made more apparent while, on his mission, Herve met a beautiful concubine (Sei Ashina) with whom he begins a passionate affair. They communicate through letters until the war intervenes but their loves persists until Helen becomes suspicious.
Starring Michael Pitt (The Village, Wonderland), Keira Knightley (Atonement, Pirates of the Caribbean) and Alfred Molina (Frida, Chocolat).
Silk is released 9 November.
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