Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

"How far would you go to escape the past?"

Credits

Robert BentonDirector

Anthony HopkinsColeman Silk

Nicole KidmanFaunia Farley

Ed HarrisLester Farley

Gary SiniseNathan Zuckerman