[4] The story follows Tara, a stay at home mother, who is beginning to fall out of love with her husband, Mark, and their kids.

Tara (Gemma Arterton) is a wife to Mark (Dominic Cooper) and a stay-at-home mother to two children, Teddy and Florrie.

Tara goes to London by herself, where she discovers and buys a book about the tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn at a second-hand bookseller.

Later that evening she discusses with Mark attending an art course and is upset that he does not understand how important it is to her, although he ultimately agrees that she should do whatever makes her happy.

A following morning, Tara takes the children to school and on the drive home stops at the Eurostar Ebbsfleet International railway station.

She sits and watches the trains and forgets to pick the children up from school, arriving late.

The following morning she travels by Paris Métro to the Musée national du Moyen Âge to see the tapestries of The Lady and the Unicorn.

Later in the museum the man, Phillipe, takes photos of Tara and discusses the history of the tapestries with her.

[5] Scenes were filmed in and around the Gravesend area in Kent, including Northfleet Nursery which was used as Tara’s son’s day centre.

And a scene was also filmed at Ebbsfleet International Station, where Tara (Gemma Arterton) watches the trains on one occasion and later leaves for Paris.

[6] Other shots were filmed in London, notably around the River Thames, on Waterloo Bridge and along the Queen's Walk at the Southbank Book Market in particular.

Filming also took place in Paris, notably at the Musée de Cluny (National Museum of the Middle Ages), at the Tuileries Garden and in the 10th arrondissement, between the Gare du Nord and Boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle.

The website's critical consensus reads, "The Escape probes gender mores while surveying the wreckage of a marriage — and offering the underrated Gemma Arterton another opportunity to prove her dramatic mettle.

"[8] On Metacritic, the film holds a weighted average rating of 75 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".