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The marriage between Rachel (Elizabeth Grace) and her husband has long hit a snag, so she's not exactly heartbroken when he's sent to a foreign country to fight in the war - but they do still write letters to one another. However she can't survive on letters alone, so she accepts a job as a farmhand - traditionally a man's job for sure but neither she nor the farmowner can be picky at times of war. And to her surprise that farmowner is Flynn (Henry Fisk), a boy of 17, so many years her junior, who has taken over the farm for the simple reason that his father has gone to war as well. And before long, it becomes clear Fynn has fallen for her. At first, Rachel only feels flattered, but then she realizes she has feelings for the boy as well, feelings she tries to fight, trying to persuade herself the age difference, but she can't keep up her defenses for too long, and eventually they embark in a steamy affair. To her credit, she confesses all of this to her husband in her letters, and she's also sure the affair will blow over - but then she learns that she's pregnant from Flynn, and that he has signed up to serve in the war ...

Now this could have been big, oversly blown-up drama, but it has actually turned out to be an intimate film that concentrates almost entirely on its two leads (especially Rachel) and keeps locations to a minimum. And thanks to a direction that makes the most of this intimacy, a script that goes for small gestures rather than over-sized melodramatics, and a pair of able leads that have palbablce chemistry, this has turned out to be a rather beautiiful, utterly worthwhile drama.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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