Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal become entwined in a ghostly story of love and loss in the trailer for All of Us Strangers.

Weekend, 45 Years, and The North Water director Andrew Haigh adapts Taichi Yamada’s haunting tale Strangers, first penned in 1987 and translated into English in 2003. Haigh changed the central character to a gay man with Yamada's blessing.

"Adapting the book was a long and sometimes painful process," Haigh said in the film's production notes. "I wanted to pick away at my own past as Adam does in the film. I was interested in exploring the complexities of both familial and romantic love, but also the distinct experience of a specific generation of gay people growing up in the '80s. I wanted to move away from the traditional ghost story of the novel and find something more psychological, almost metaphysical."

The film follows London screenwriter Adam (Scott), who becomes intimately entangled with his secretive neighbour, Harry (Mescal), in their near-empty apartment block. Simultaneously, Adam feels drawn back to his suburban home town, where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) died 30 years earlier — but haven't quite left.

All of Us Strangers premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in August and is set to screen at the New York Film Festival and BFI London Film Festival in October. The film will be released in cinemas on Jan. 26.