Connie is a member of the British landowning "Ascendancy" in Ireland after WWI. Through a chance friendship with a British soldier, she learns how sheltered she has been, and chooses to ... See full summary »
Award: Jury Prize at Quimper's Semaine du Cinéma Anglais (France, March 1985).
Connie Wintour:
It's very ugly.
Lt. Ryder:
Now you mustn't despise barbed wire. It's cheap, it's effective and they tell me that seen at dawn across no-man's land it even has an austere beauty.
Connie Wintour:
This isn't no-man's land. This is my home.
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