Erotic thriller in which beautiful designer Alice (Heather Graham
- Austin Powers 2 The Guru) embarks on a passionate affair with Adam (Joseph Fiennes: Shakespears in Love Enemy at the Gates) a revered mountaineer whom she meets by chance on the streets of London. Within days Adam proposes & Alice carried away by their intense physical passion leaves her long-term boyfriend to be with him. Good-looking famous & above all devoted it seems that the only shadow in Adam's life is the guilt he feels over his former girlfriend who died whilst climbing with him. Soon however a series of anonymous letters force Alice to recognise that she knows virtually nothing about the man she loves & as she pieces his past together she is drawn into a web of obsession & jealousy which soon leaves her fearing for her life. Based on the best selling novel by Nicci French Killing Me Softly is directed by Chen Kaige the award-winning director of Farewell My Concubine.