Throughout his career, writer and director Andrew Haigh has excelled in demonstrating the richness of relationships on screen, from fleeting passion in Weekend to an enduring companionship in 45 Years. His latest effort is romance drama All of Us Strangers, based on the 1987 novel by Taichi Yamada. The plot follows screenwriter Adam (Andrew Scott) who lives a lonely existence in a desolate London tower block. After a fire drill in his building, he has a brief encounter with neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal) who makes a drunken pass at him. Nights later, whilst looking for inspiration for his next script, he visits his suburban childhood home only to find that his mother (Claire Foy) and father (Jamie Bell) are still there, just as he remembers them, despite having been killed in a car accident around thirty years earlier.

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