狂虐的颶風(fēng)向蘇蘭內(nèi)陸步步緊逼泰晤士水閘首席計(jì)師羅伯（羅伯·卡萊爾 Robert Carlyle 飾）和前妻——水閘工程監(jiān)薩米（杰薩?吉爾西格 Jessalyn Gilsig 飾）被叫回到水閘做安檢查，而羅伯心芥蒂疏遠(yuǎn)的父親納德教授（湯?康特奈 Tom Courtenay 飾）根據(jù)自己豐富經(jīng)驗(yàn)測(cè)算并定一旦洪水襲來泰晤士河水閘必被擊潰。他及時(shí)此情況報(bào)告給了機(jī)控制中心的納女士。然而他的告并未到重視，機(jī)控制中心的專不能準(zhǔn)確地判斷況，不置可否的首相竟向人們承洪水不會(huì)抵達(dá)倫市區(qū)。洪峰3小時(shí)后到達(dá)了倫敦，天駭浪躍過水閘數(shù)億噸的洪水急奔涌進(jìn)中央倫敦頃刻間一片汪洋數(shù)百萬倫敦人危旦夕。羅伯特，米和萊納德只有小時(shí)來挽救這座市…?
Henry Stanfield is the new Truth Commissioner in Northern Ireland. Part of his job is to facilitate the peaceful sharing of power in Belfast. However, the investigation into the murder of a teenage boy, who acted as an informer, brings to light more buried secrets than either London or Dublin want to become known, and various people, both at home in Ireland and as far away as America, find out that old sins cast long shadows.
