Ein Kind zur Zeit - The Child In Time

The life of successful children's book author and happy family man Stephen Lewis is unexpectedly thrown into chaos one day. While he is casually shopping in the supermarket with his four-year-old daughter Kate, she suddenly goes missing. The world collapses for the parents. In their desperate search for meaning in life after the nightmarish incident, their marriage is inevitably heading towards the abyss. Three years later, Julie, Kate's mother, has moved to the coast in hopes of finding a quieter daily life, but Stephen still cannot let go of his restless and desperate search. It is only when he visits his closest friends in the countryside that he slowly begins to take his first steps forward again - yet the path of coping, on which he has only just begun, seems endlessly long.

Julian Farino's "One Child at a Time" offers a sensitive and simultaneously heart-wrenching portrayal of the essential human experience of love, loss, and the power of the unpredictable. Screenwriter Stephen Butchard adapted the film from the award-winning novel of the same name by bestselling author Ian McEwan. Oscar-nominated film star Benedict Cumberbatch shines in the lead role alongside Kelly Macdonald, Stephen Campbell Moore, and Saskia Reeves. During its English premiere, over 5.7 million television viewers followed the gripping drama.