Story about Young Adam / 少年亚当 / 年轻的亚当 / 亡情水 / 烈火亚当
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employer' lives while hiding the fact that he ...
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employer' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe's past relationhip with the dead woman. Meanwhile an unpoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tenion in the confined space of the barge.