Look Beyond the Comfort

Oscar®-winner Vanessa Redgrave stars in this HBO Films adaptation of writer/actor Wallace Shawn's deeply personal stage play about the high cost of enlightenment, and the ever-widening gap between those who have and those who have not.

Redgrave plays a nameless woman from a privileged world, suffering from a sense of disconnection from her comfortable life, who travels to a country (also nameless) in the throes of civil war.

Suddenly deliriously ill, she collapses in a hotel bathroom, and, confronts an internal chorus of conflicting voices: dreams of comfort from her past, images of physical and economic violence, accusations of indifference, and cold-blooded arguments in favor of oppression.

The central question: what, if anything, is a morally consistent way to live in the world as it is?

Directed by Carlo Nero and featuring Joely Richardson, Rade Sherbedgia and Geraldine James. Premieres Wednesday, June 13 at 9:30pm (ET/PT).