In the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, a dreamy and imaginative girl, lives on her family’s grand English estate.
One day, she secretly watches her older sister Cecilia and the handsome young Robbie Turner share a charged, intimate moment by the fountain. Briony, who doesn’t fully understand what she’s seeing, misinterprets everything.
Later that night, when her cousin Lola is attacked, Briony wrongly accuses Robbie of the crime. Her false testimony sends an innocent man to pris