Kenneth Branagh's vanity project - he directs and self-consciously stars - concerns a mute amnesiac (Emma Thompson) who doesn't remember who she is but inexplicably remembers, in black-and-white scenes that recall Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, a historical murder case involving a piano composer and his wife; it turns out these past characters have found each other in the present day, which is the convoluted and really quite ridiculous supernatural means by which these present-day characters - Emma Thompson's mute amnesiac and her carer, Branagh's detective - come to know about and investigate and are able to reveal that historical murder mystery's obvious culprit.
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