Movie Story : Set in 1935 England, Atonement follows Briony Tallis, a imaginative thirteen-year-old whose misreading of a charged moment between her older sister Cecilia and the family's housekeeper's son, Robbie, leads her to make a false accusation. The lie upends the lives of everyone involved and sends Robbie to prison and then to the war in France. Years later, Briony, now an aspiring writer, confronts the consequences of what she did and seeks a way to make amends.