The film concerns "a renowned author and debunker of hoaxes, Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall), called to a provincial boarding school to explain away sightings of a phantom boy. What she discovers will prompt her to reconsider her deductive tactics — and send her mind spiraling back to a distant, forgotten past. Set in 1921, THE AWAKENING belongs to a great English tradition of ghost stories that work their chills through psychology and suggestion."
