It's a quiet domestic scene. A Muslim couple arrive home, she makes a cup of tea in their nicely equipped kitchen and chats to him while he settles down in his armchair in the next room in the background. She takes him his tea, speaks to him and he doesn't reply. There's no sound, we can't hear what she says next, but her actions make it very clear that something sudden and terrible has happened.
That brief moment at the start of After Love changes Mary's (Joanna Scanlan) life for ever. An English woman who converted to Islam to marry the man she loved years ago, she's an integral part of the community attending the mosque in Dover, who all support her in the following days. After the funeral, she sits amongst them, clad from head to toe in white, her face a picture of numb pain. It's only when the dust settles and she starts going through her husband's possessions that she discovers he had a secret life, something she'd never suspected, and her need to find out more takes her across the Channel to France...
Secrets, lies, love and sacrifices spanning a lifetime resonate across the English Channel and far beyond in writer-director Aleem Khan's staggering debut, After Love.
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