Colin firth and kenneth branagh star in this british drama adaptation of j l carrs novel set in yorkshire in the summer of 1920 the film follows war veteran tom birkin firth as he spends a month in the english countryside carrying out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural villages church as he tries to recover from the lingering trauma of the first world war tom befriends fellow veteran and archaeologist james moon branagh who has been tasked with finding a lost grave