Winter Solstice

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

• William CorlettScreenplay
• Martyn FriendDirector

• Sinéad CusackElfrida Phibbs
• Jan NiklasOscar Blundell
• Geraldine ChaplinGloria Blundell
• Jason DurrSam Howard
• Sophie SchüttCarrie Marchmont
• Ralf BauerAndreas Mendel
• Peter UstinovHughie McLellan
• Jean SimmonsCountess Lucinda Rhives
• Emma StreetsFrancesca 'Fran' Blundell
• Anna MaguireLucy Marchmont
• Marsha FitzalanDidi Marchmont
• John BirdBarry