Canada  7 September 2007   (Toronto Film Festival)　　UK 2 May 2008

In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..

苏格兰女王玛丽（克蕾曼丝·波西 Clemence Poesy 饰）在18岁之前都生活在异国他乡，成年之后，她回到了苏格兰继承了王位。直到这时，这位天真的少女才发现，原来王室的生活除了肉眼可见的奢侈和华贵外，还暗藏着无数的下三路勾当。　　在吃了几回亏之后，玛丽迅速的成长起来 ，逐渐蜕变成为了一位真正受人敬仰的女王，但在此过程中，她失去了太多。为了稳固政权，玛丽被迫借给了英格兰伯爵，但之后，她邂逅了英俊的护卫队长（保罗·尼科尔斯 Paul Nicholls 饰），两人之间很快就碰撞出了爱情的火花。当玛丽女王沉浸在她甜蜜的爱情之中时，宫内亦正在酝酿一个惊人的阴谋。