 In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, director Michael Haneke retells the story through the eyes of middle-class housewife Anna (Naomi Watts) of how she and her husband George (Tim Roth) and their 10-year-old son Georgie (Devon Gearhart) submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.