While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker and offers him a lift Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area and so she points him in the direction of Blacks farm an isolated steading Francis Black the owner who is blind and lives there with his ailing mother Bella and enigmatic young wife Rachel tells Mike he can work in the yard But put off by the foreboding atmosphere Mike declines A chance encounter with Rachel however persuades him to stay and settle in Since the accident that blinded him two years earlier Francis has become incresingly bitter and sensing hs young wifes attraction to the stranger orders him to leave But rather than force them apart Mikes imminent departure only serves to bind teh two in a passionate relationship that will ultimately have dark consequences for them all
DirectorEleanor Yule
WriterEleanor Yule