Under hypnosis Neil Clarke a 32 year old fireman from Stoke on Trent recounts the heartbreaking story of a 19th-century landowner, called Hawksworth, who loses his wife, his money and then his freedom when he commits manslaughter. Neil's wife believes that these memories could have something to do with a traumatic experience in Neil's past that he has never dealt with. Driven by the emotions he experienced while he was hypnotism, Neil sets out to find out if Hawksworth really existed.