The couple, whose relationship is tense due to their son Michael being killed during the Blitz by Luftwaffe bombing, will be staying in the requisitioned house of German architect Stefan Lubert and his teenage daughter Freda Lubert. Rachael Morgan arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter German winter to be reunited with her husband Lewis Morgan, a colonel of British Forces Germany charged with rebuilding the shattered city and dealing with violent insurgent Werwolf activities. The Aftermath is set in British occupation zone in post-war Germany in 1945.

It is the last Fox Searchlight Pictures film to be released before the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney. It was released in the United States on 15 March 2019, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film had its world premiere at the Glasgow Film Festival on 26 February 2019. It stars Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård and Jason Clarke. The Aftermath is a 2019 drama film directed by James Kent and written by Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Rhidian Brook.