Chris Boyd

For 650 years, two rival Lincolnshire villages have met to play a game led by an enigmatic character known as 'The Fool'. This year, a new 'Fool' was elected for the first time in a quarter of a century. From now on, every January, James Chatwin will make a fool of himself.

A self-absorbed lecturer returns to a remote part of the English countryside in the hope of burying an affair with a young asylum seeker. But an uncanny presence has other ideas.