検索キーワード： "Ian McEwan" 家庭生活

While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.

En la gran casa de campo de la familia Tallis, la madre se ha encerrado en su habitación con migraña, y el señor Tallis, un importante funcionario, está, como casi siempre, en Londres. Briony, la hija menor, de trece años, desesperada por ser adulta y ya herida por la literatura, ha escrito una obra de teatro para agasajar a su hermano Leon, que ha terminado sus exámenes en la universidad y hoy vuelve a casa con un amigo.