 In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for "Time Out" magazine saw it ranked the twelfth best British film ever.The voice-over throughout the film is in the form of an unspoken confession from Laura to her husband.Laura Jesson, a respectable middle-class British woman in an affectionate but rather dull marriage, tells her story while sitting at home with her husband, imagining that she is confessing her affair to him.