Alan Grant, a sharp but restless Scotland Yard inspector, ends up stuck in a hospital bed after an accident. Bored and frustrated, he fixes his attention on a centuries-old portrait of King Richard III. Something in the face bothers him. The official story paints Richard as a monster who murdered two young princes to seize power. Grant starts to doubt that version.
From inside his room, he turns the past into a living case. He studies old reports, questions accepted truths, and pulls in help from a quick-thinking young researcher and a pair of nurses who become unexpected allies. As the evidence grows, Grant is drawn deeper into a political puzzle that stretches across five hundred years.
The more he learns, the more the lines blur between fact and legend, guilt and propaganda. What begins as a distraction becomes an investigation that challenges the foundations of a national myth. The film follows Grant’s search for the truth as he moves closer to an answer others stopped asking about long ago.
