Till Human Voices Wake Us

Sam, a psychiatrist, encounters a woman named Ruby on the train as he travels to his hometown in the Australian bush after the death of his father. Ruby apparently has amnesia, but she also appears to be connected to Sam's past... Fifteen year old Sam Franks returns to his country home town of Genoa from boarding school and hangs out with his childhood friend Sylvy. Their friendship turns into budding first love, but when they go down to the river for an evening swim, Sylvy disappears, believed drowned. Years later, Sam (Guy Pearce) is a practising psychologist, but has blocked out all the painful memories of Sylvy's death. When his father dies, Sam returns to Genoa for the funeral and meets a beautiful, mysterious woman, Ruby (Helena Bonham-Carter), on the train. Then he sees her on the railway bridge one night, above the river and when he goes to help her, finds she seems to have lost her memory... (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)