Ruth & Simon's romantic break is shattered by the news that their daughter, Heather, on holiday in Cornwall, has disappeared. In time Ruth remarries & has a second daughter, Beatrice. Then Beatrice goes missing. While DI Grayson leads the search for Beatrice, DS Helen Walker re-examines what happened to Heather years before. ...

Todd Haynes' tale of 1950s prejudices in America. Housewife Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) thinks she has the perfect set-up; two children, a successful husband (Dennis Quaid) & a house in the suburbs. But this vision is shattered one night when she surprises her husband at work & finds him in the arms of another man. Not able to tell anyone in her social circle, she finds solace with their African-American gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert). However, when they are seen alone together by Cathy's best friend (Celia Weston)
- a social taboo in that era
- the gossip begins & this threatens to reveal the Whitaker's secret life.

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John Gill provides a revealing insight into Todd Haynes' cult classic Far From Heaven (2002), the first single critical study of the film. Gill explores how Haynes confronts issues of race, sexuality & class in a surburban 1950s American neighbourhood, in a clear homage to director Douglas Sirk & his work of the period. ...