The film centres on a random act of theft that has put Tom Hammondâs life into a tailspin. Stolen from his bookshop is Tomâs most treasured possession, a photograph of him with his son Lukeâ¦their last moment of shared happiness. THE LAST PHOTOGRAPH is set between London in 2003, and a dark night in 1988 when Pan Am 103 was blown out of the sky over Lockerbie.