The accepted history of slave revolts has always told her that enslaved women took a back seat to men in fighting for freedom. Nevertheless the supernatural story is engaging and has many plot points with new revelations. Rebecca Hall, a historian, granddaughter of slaves, and woman haunted by the legacy of slavery. The storyline is very similar to the 1995 'Haunted', with a woman that exposes hoax and swindlers traveling to her home town to investigate a ghost that is haunting the students of a boarding school. 'The Awakening' is a ghost story that begins with the information that between 19, the war and the influenza claimed more than one million lives in Britain. Florence comments with Robert and he tells that there is only three persons in the boarding school, leaving Florence scared.

Florence is ready to leave the boarding school and strange things happen. Sooner Florence discovers what had happened to Walter and then the students, teachers and staff are released on vacation, and Florence remains alone with Robert, Maud and Tom in the school. On the arrival, she is welcomed by the governess Maud (Imelda Staunton) and the boy Thomas Hill. The reluctant Florence finally accepts to go to Cumbrio. He also tells that many years ago there was a murder in the real estate and recently the pupil Walter Portman had died.

The stranger Robert Mallory (Dominic West) tells her that the headmaster of the boarding school in Rookford had invited her to travel to Cumbrio to investigate a ghost that is frightening to death the pupils. In 1921, in London, the arrogant and skeptical Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a famous for exposing hoax, helping the police to arrest con artists.

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