The Weight of Water

Newspaper photographer Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) travels to a New Hampshire island with her husband Thomas (Sean Penn), brother-in-law Rich (Josh Lucas), and his girlfriend Adaline Gunne (Elizabeth Hurley) to investigate an 1873 axe-murder of two Norwegian women, in which she finds her own relationships paralleling those of a woman who survived the crime. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters.