Onwards and Sideways

Directed by John Madden

With Rhys Ifans, Laura Linney, Monica Dolan, Rory Kinnear and Nicholas Asbury

Tony Evans is the deputy head of a local primary school. Emma Dretzin is a pianist, composer and single mother of two daughters. Neither knows the other until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives: on the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s.