Danielstown is the country home of Sir Richard Naylor and his wife, Lady Myra around the time of the Irish strugglefor independence. Behind the façade of set-piece dinners, tennis parties and army-camp dances, however, all know that their essentially feudal way of life is coming to an end. Lady Myra’s niece, Lois, who is being courted by a captain in the British army, is lured by the menacingly playful and violent young man who has taken up residence at the bottom of the garden. What unfolds is a portrait of the demise of a way of life and a young woman’s coming of age in a dangerous time.
DIRECTOR Deborah Warner
PRODUCER Yvonne Thunder
CAST Fiona Shaw, Lambert Wilson, Keeley Hawes, Gary Lydon, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Jane Birkin
RUNNING TIME 120 minutes