In London 1952, Williams, a veteran civil servant, has become a small cog in the bureaucracy of rebuilding post-WWII England. As endless paperwork piles up on his desk, he learns he has a fatal illness. Thus begins his quest to find some meaning to his life before it slips away. An adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1942 classic 'Ikiru' by Nobel & Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro.