Australia 1946. A young woman escapes from an unhappy affair to become tutor to three children who are being raised by their uncle.
Just left from her fiancée, the young English Diana Veness starts as teacher and governess at the timber merchant Marlow. He's had bad luck and is disappointed with women. Diana, last in a long row of short governess employees, has to suffer under his unfriendly behavior.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>