The story covers the time period from prior to the First World War to the early 1950's and is told in flashbacks as well as following the characters in their current capacities. Dollie Stokesay is a free spirited and independent woman with romantic problems and a continuing relationship with the main character of the story, an archaeologist, with marital problems, who finds his career coming under threat over a disputed find.

C a s t

Tara Fitzgerald as Young Dollie Stokesay Douglas Hodge as Young Gerald Middleton
Richard Johnson as Gerald Middleton
Elizabeth Spriggs as Inge Middleton
Dorothy Tutin as Dollie Stokesay
Kate Winslet as Caroline Jevington

Production Credits

Director Diarmuid Lawrence
Producer Andrew Brown & Paul Sparrow (associate)
Screenwriter Andrew Davies based on novel by A N Wilson
Made by Euston Films (1991) for Thames TV