THE DROWNING is a psychological thriller based on the novel Border Crossing by award winning British author Pat Barker. Psychologist Tom Seymour (Josh Charles) plunges into an icy river to rescue a young man (Avan Jogia) from drowning. His spontaneous act saves the man, but he discovers that he is the same boy who was convicted of murder twelve years earlier based on Tom's testimony. When the man reappears in Tom's life, Tom is drawn into a destructive reinvestigation of the case.