An aristocratic woman whose life is rocked by her brother's death and the breakdown of her marriage is left to manage the family estate alone. However, when she takes in a professor of classical literature as a lodger, her unhappy life begins to turn around. Romantic drama, starring Suzanne von Borsody, Iain Glen and Rutger Hauer.

An aristocratic woman is forced to cope with the end of her marriage and the death of her brother. Left to the run the failing family estate, the woman is intrigued by her new lodger, a charming professor.