Year: 1997
Runtime: 103 mins
Language: English
Director: William Nicholson
In 1838, governess Elisabeth bears a child for an anonymous English landowner to clear her father's debts, then surrenders the baby. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate, only to learn the child's father, Charles Godwin, is the same man. She must now teach her own daughter, keeping their bond secret.
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