A part-improvised comedy about a couple bringing up their three young children.

Follows the residents of one English village across the 20th century and their turbulent lives.

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker.

Nick Sastre, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassinÂ's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major arms-smuggling operation that threatens international security.