1998 · 103 min · Romance, Drama
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth Laurier agrees to bear a child of an anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth, she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later, she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The girl's father, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Directed by William Nicholson. Starring Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson and Joss Ackland.
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