The teacher explains to his class how he and his wife had a teenage romance, which led to a disastrous abortion that left her infertile. In an opening scene, the teacher's childless wife (Cusack) takes a child from a supermarket and believes it to be hers. The film portrays the history teacher's narrative in the form of flashbacks to tell the story of a teenage boy and his mentally challenged older brother living in The Fens of England with their widowed father. His method is to narrate his life to his class and interweave three generations of his family's history. The film follows the story of an anguished English-born Pittsburgh high school teacher (Irons) in 1974 going through a reassessment of his life. The film moved the contemporary location from England to Pittsburgh and eliminated many of the extensive historical asides. It is based on Graham Swift's 1983 novel of the same name. Waterland is a 1992 British mystery drama film directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal and starring Jeremy Irons, Sinéad Cusack, Ethan Hawke and John Heard.
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