Swallow The Lake
“There are things that make me look at you anew.”
Joanna and Joseph have just relocated to a quiet town in Essex with their young children. When they host their first dinner party in their new home, an old story resurfaces—along with a word that never should have been said.
What follows is a rupture. A single moment reverberates through years of trust, affection, and silence, shaking the very foundation of their relationship.
In the wreckage, we are pulled back—back to their first meeting, to a shared childhood shaped by army barracks and English hillsides. Together, we march through memory and time, tracing the thread of their connection from innocence through complexity, loyalty, love and all that lies between.
Can a lifelong friendship survive the cracks in the country that raised it?