Based on a short story by William J Lock (and "liberated" from a Budapest set-dressing room by an entranced Dance), the film conjures up a by-gone age and its residents so perfectly you find yourself rooting for the most unlikely of characters, their relationships and their all-too-human foibles throughout. A young Polish-Jewish violinist, is washed ashore in a close-knit Cornish community in 1936 and taken in by two spinster sisters. Directed by Charles Dance and starring Judie Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Bruhl.