The Remains of the DayThe Remains of the Day

It is the summer of 1956, when Stevens, a man who has dedicated himself to his career as a perfect butler in the one-time great house of Darlington Hall, sets off on a holiday that will take him deep into the English couontryside and unexpectedly into his own past, especially his friendship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. As memories surface of his life "in service" to Lord Darlington, and of a mysterious time between the wars when the fate of the continent seemed to lie in the hands of a few men, he finds himself confronting the dark undercurrent beneath the carefully run world of his employer.