On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother’s Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul (Josh O’Connor) is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane’s long-term love despite the fact that he’s engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents’ friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane’s life forever.
“Shimmers with confident filmmaking, fine performances and a belief in the melancholic resonance of a lovers’ sanctuary as something difficult to let go of.” — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
“There is a lot to admire in this film” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
directed by
Eva Husson
Eva Husson
written by
Alice Birch, Graham Swift
Alice Birch, Graham Swift
with
Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth
Odessa Young, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth
country
United Kingdom, Germany
United Kingdom, Germany