HD
2026
Set against the backdrop of Victorian Brighton, a gripping melodrama unfolds as a cunning pub landlady manipulates the timid son of a controlling pharmacist. Their dark alliance centers around a sinister plot to poison her alcoholic husband. The film's title refers to the traditional method pharmacists used to package poisons, hinting at the underlying themes of deception and danger. As the plot thickens, tensions rise, revealing the lengths to which individuals will go to escape their circumstances and the moral complexities that ensue.