See in the heady post-war England of the 1950’s, the film tells the story of young Jack following the inexplicable death of his beloved mother Emily on his 8th birthday. On the same day in 1952, Jack reaches his 16th year, the King dies, and as he celebrates his birthday surrounded by his extended family, a stranger appears at the door whose appearance bears a startling resemblance to his dead mother and who presence turns Jack and his family’s world upside down.