A woman who has been institutionalized for 60 years for the "crime" of not conforming to the 1920s image of what a proper young woman should be (in other words, she did what she wanted and didn't care what anyone else thought about it) is finally released to the custody of her family, consisting of her grand-nephew and his family. At first she keeps a self-imposed distance from the relatives, but she soon finds herself coming around to her nephew's wife, a free spirit who is under the thumb of her cold and controlling husband.
Peggy Ashcroft
as Lillian Huckle
Geraldine James
as Harriet Ambrose
James Fox
as Hugh Ambrose
Rachel Kempson
as Matilda
Rebecca Pidgeon
as Young Lillian
Hugh Lloyd
as George
Jackson Kyle
as Dominic Ambrose
Rosalie Crutchley
as Gladys
Cryss Jean Healey
as Young Margaret
Leslie Goodall
as Old Edward
Edgar Goodall
as Old Thomas
René Zagger
as Young Thomas
