A children's author (Madeleine Stowe) is dragged from her bed in the dead of night and taken to a high-tech interrogation room where a government inquisitor (Alan Rickman) accuses her of peddling subversive ideas to children in the guise of innocent stories. This powerful and claustrophobic drama could so easily have become tedious and repetitive but instead is surprisingly compelling. This is thanks to a literate script from debut director Radha Bharadwaj and a powerful and intelligent performance by Rickman. Stowe is also good, but going head-to-head with an actor of Rickman's calibre, it's no shame to come in second.


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