A un niveau extrême, deux hommes et deux femmes vont jouer le jeu pervers de la séduction et du désir. Alternant manipulations et trahisons, ils entament un diabolique chassé-croisé amoureux dont personne ne sortira indemne.

Director Mike Nichols has always been closely aligned with the theatre, and some of his best films, like Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, have been adaptations from the stage. Nichols lends his actor-magic to Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Natalie Portman for this English play adaptation.