When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)
Sinéad Cusack
Jan Niklas
Geraldine Chaplin
Jason Durr
Sophie Schütt
Ralf Bauer
Peter Ustinov
Jean Simmons
Emma Streets
Anna Maguire
Marsha Fitzalan
John Bird
Maureen Lipman
Gregory Finnegan
Alastair Bruce
Angus Wright