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On a hot summer's day in 1935 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis is planning the performance of a play which she has written in honour of her brother Leon. The actors are her cousins, fifteen-year-old Lola and the nine-year-old twins Jackson and Pierrot. Also there, home from college, is Briony's sister, Cecilia, who has confused emotions about Robbie Turner, son of the Tallis' cleaning lady. Whilst watering some flowers Cecilia and Robbie break a vase and Cecilia strips to her underwear to jump into the fountain and retrieve the fragments. Robbie is startled and Briony, who sees what happens, doesn't know what to make of it. It is the fountain which is to change everything.