Overview
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)
Cast
- Sinéad Cusack as Elfrida Phibbs
- Jan Niklas as Oscar Blundell
- Geraldine Chaplin as Gloria Blundell
- Jason Durr as Sam Howard
- Sophie Schütt as Carrie Marchmont
- Ralf Bauer as Andreas Mendel
- Peter Ustinov as Hughie McLellan
- Jean Simmons as Countess Lucinda Rhives
- Emma Streets as Francesca 'Fran' Blundell
- Anna Maguire as Lucy Marchmont