When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland. Soon she and the family father, Charles, start a passionate secret affair.

• British Screen Productions
• Arts Council of England
• Minnie Driver
• Tom Wilkinson
• Harriet Walter
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers
• Florence Hoath
• Arlene Cockburn
• Emma Bird
• Adam Levy