A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.
'A comedy in which a secretary persuades a man to pose as her fiancée.' (BFI)
The story of a small valley community that is narrow minded and those who wish to leave it on the train that regularly hurries from the narrow valley.
