Incendiary

"One moment can change a life forever."

Oct 24 2008 R 1h 36m
Drama, Romance, Thriller

A woman's life is torn apart when her husband and infant son are killed in a suicide bombing at a soccer match.

Plot

Grief, guilt, and betrayal. In North London, a young mother dotes on her four-year-old son and lives in a modest flat with her husband, a cop in the bomb squad. The Arsenal football team is their religion. On May Day, a major terrorist attack brings tragedy while she is in the arms of a rich reporter who lives over the road. She wishes she were dead. In grief and guilt, she pursues revenge, faces betrayal, experiences delusions, and may be suicidal. Two men seek her affection: the reporter and a colleague of her husband's who imagines caravan camping with her on a beach. In London, the city of the Great Fire and of Hitler's bombardment, is there any way back to life for her?

Written by

Chris Cleave, Sharon Maguire

Directed by

Sharon Maguire

Production Countries

United Kingdom

Production Companies

Sneak Preview Films, UK Film Council, Film4 Productions, Aramid Entertainment Fund, Archer Street Productions, Capitol Films, Incendiary, Wild Bear Films

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
9,278
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA