Tom is unhappy about this, presumably because he doesn’t want a reminder of the love affair he had decades before. When Patrick has a stroke, Marion brings him into her home so she can act as his carer. We learn that Tom and Marion remained together after getting married and that the relationship between Tom and Patrick ended. The film regularly flashes forward in time to the 1990’s and this gives us the opportunity to reconnect with each character. As a consequence, they meet in secret, but as Tom is engaged to be married to a schoolteacher called Marion, the two men don’t have the opportunity to spend a great deal of time together. Unfortunately, Tom and Patrick are bound by the legalities of the time which forbid them from having an openly gay relationship. Based on Bethan Robert’s novel of the same name, My Policeman tells the story of closeted gay policeman Tom who falls in love with museum curator Patrick in 1950s Brighton.
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