While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Janet McTeer
as Loretta Lawson
Imelda Staunton
as Bridget Bennet
Bill Nighy
as John Tracey
Suzanna Hamilton
as Veronica Puddephat
Paul Brooke
as Humphrey Morris
Greg Wise
as Jamie Baird
Joanna McCallum
as Miriam Morris
Clarke Peters
as Theo Sykes
Kevin McNally
as Andrew Gardner
Charlotte Cornwell
as Insp. Parkinson
Buki Armstrong
as Bethany Edwards
Peter Lovstrom
as Arthur Goodchild
