A young girl lives in the Outer Hebrides in a small village in the years just before WWI. Isolated and hard by the shore, her life takes a dramatic change when a terrible tragedy befalls her.
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Character
Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Hermione CorfieldKirsty MacLeod
- Morven ChristieMairi MacLeod
- Mark GatissDoctor MacLean
- Will FletcherMurdo MacAulay
- Ali Fumiko WhitneyAnnie MacLeod
- Ian PirieConstable MacRae
- Jeff StewartSkipper
- David BrooksKirsty’s Father
- Felicity KeenanYoung Kirsty
- Tom ByrneIain Ban
Crew
- Richie AdamsDirector
- Richie AdamsWriter
- John MacKayNovel
- Petra KornerDirector of Photography
- Matt MayerEditor
- Maryilene BlondellProducer
- Steve ShapiroProducer
- Jim KreutzerProducer
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