Phillip is a boringly normal man, a computer geek, more functional with logic than with people and their illogical problems. When a sequence of murders takes place in his east London neighborhood he feels linked to them. Unsettling visions possess him, hurling him into a mental breakdown, his decline encouraged by his son, a repellant and menacing presence lurking at the margins of Phillip's life. Simultaneously, the crime detective, the careworn Spencer, yields to a bizarre relationship with his superior officer. Her attitude towards both the case and Spencer verges on the merciless and...