Synopsis please + WITHOUT spoilers = much appreciated. Thank you.

I did this from memory so no doubt missed a few scenes but this is the gist of it -
Iris is a lawyer and mother to her 7-year-old autistic son Aron. she works for Benschop, a prestigious family-owned company. The middle-aged Benschops are like royalty in their company town. Their son Peter is a pornographer, a black sheep, who seems to take a perverse pleasure in dragging his family name through the mud. He is presently being sued by one of his subjects who was underage at the time he worked with her. Iris is designated to represent him. He is defiant about challenging the charges and won't consent to having his wealthy family buy the girl off, this being a good opportunity to further embarrass them. Aron is having problems at school. He was involved in some violent incidents after becoming sensually overstimulated due to his autism. His mother doesn't want him stigmatized by being labeled autistic and continues to hope that he will adjust to a normal classroom setting but, after these latest incidents, the school insists that she keep him home for a week during which time he will be tested and evaluated for autism. Iris' mother, who usually watches Aron, is getting ready to leave for her regular 2-week vacation which she treasures - the only one she takes each year. But Iris needs her to take care of Aron as she will be in court dealing with Peter's case. Her mother refuses to cancel her vacation but allows them to stay at her home where Aron can be preoccupied with her aquarium, containing tropical saltwater fish about which he is highly knowledgeable and somewhat obsessed (in an autistic sort of way). After one of the fish dies a natural death, Iris calls her mother's "fish man", as she had been instructed to do in case there are any fish problems. The man mentions offhandedly how much Iris looks like her brother which comes as a revelation to her, having been unaware she had a brother. She calls her mother, en route to her destination, but Ageeth gives her the cold shoulder and refuses to take any more of her calls. Iris proceeds to ransack her mother's house in search of clues pertaining to her long-lost brother. Eventually she finds hidden in a closet some photos, a key and files indicating that her brother, Ray, who is also autistic, has been committed to a hospital for the criminally insane after having committed a horrendous double murder - that of his girlfriend and her baby. Upon meeting with him, she becomes aware of the uncanny behavioral similarities between Ray and her son, including the obsession with tropical saltwater fish, and begins to feel a strong bond with Ray. She is excited to have a brother and determines that she will try to represent Ray and fight for his release. Ray had been poorly represented by his previous lawyer, a shyster not known to do any pro bono work, suggesting he may have had an ulterior motive for taking on Ray's case and botching it. When Ageeth returns from her vacation, Iris confronts her again, demanding to know how her mother could have kept from her the existence of her brother but is again rebuffed. Peter meets with Iris to discuss his case. While Iris is distracted by Aron's acting out, Peter sees Ray's open file on her desk which iris had found in her mother's house. He finds a snapshot of the head office personal of Beschop in which his much younger father is looking knowingly at a much younger, very pregnant Ageeth, who in turn looks at him adoringly while stretching her arms languidly around her pregnant belly. After perusing the files, Peter realizes he has a half-sibling and becomes deeply concerned about a potential threat to his inheritance. Iris tracks down the storage compartment corresponding to the key she found in Ray's files, containing his possessions. Iris learns that the mother of Ray's girlfriend didn't believe that Ray had killed her and goes off to find her. She learns that Rosita was a prostitute and that Anna's father was none other than Ray himself. Although having fairly severe mental dysfunction, he regularly protected Rosita from dangerous clients and was devoted to their baby, Anna. Their relationship, though atypical, was a seemingly symbiotic and loving one. At this point, Iris strongly suspects that Ray had been framed. While in the storage compartment, a goon appears and threatens her to break off her involvement with Ray or else. Iris confronts the patriarch of the family, Twan Benschop, about his affair with her mother resulting in the birth of Ray, the half-brother of both Iris and Peter. He informs her that her mother was the true love of his life and she learns that her mother's treasured 2-week vacations each year are spent with him. Again, they try to warn her off the trail but she refuses to quit. Then they give the nod to the same goon who had earlier threatened Iris to follow her car. He drives her off the road, down a steep embankment into a creek and commences to strangling her while Aron hides on a nearby bank. She manages to find a rock in the water and whacks him just as she is losing consciousness and a few more times for good measure, narrowly escaping while the expired goon floats away downstream. Iris meets again with Ray and finds that he has been threatened not to talk. Ray's doctor, who is total hunk that Iris is falling for, hands over to her a box full of Ray's sketches which he drew in a frenzy after their last meeting. The doctor says they are just meaningless scrawls but Aron recognizes that they are pieces of a puzzle - puzzles being one of his passions. The individual sketches are placed on the floor of the living room while Aron joins them together to form a huge, beautifully detailed picture of exactly what had happened to Rosita on the night of her death. According to the picture, it was in reality Iris' mother Ageeth who killed Rosita. Iris confronts her mother once again and this time she spills everything. Ageeth was blind to the strengths in her autistic son, seeing only his weaknesses, and could not imagine him having the capacity to be a father. She despised his prostitute girlfriend, wrongly convinced she was using Ray, and determined that this was no home for her granddaughter who would be far better off under her care. Twan drives her to their apartment where she tries to take possession of Anna. Rosita cannot bear to give up her baby. Overwrought, she draws a knife from the kitchen and attacks Ageeth. They struggle over the knife until finally it lands in Rosita's chest. But she is not dead yet when Twan enters the room, so he finishes her off and they leave with the baby. Iris now realizes she and Anna are one and the same, thereby making Ray not her brother after all but her father. She meets with Ageeth who confesses this too. Iris tells a devastated Ageeth that she never wants to see her again. In the final scene, Iris has won Ray's release and they walk away from the asylum together joyfully, arm in arm.



Leave the gun, take the cannoli...