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To have his peace and quiet to write down the history of the area,
writer Garvin (John Duttine) has put up shop at a small farm near a
village owned by Falshaw (Cavid Hargreaves) and his pregnant wife (Maggie
Ford) - especially because it was said that there are no children around
to disturb him. Yet from the first night on, Garvin hears a girl crying,
but only at night, and eventually he sees the girl (Annette
Wilkie-Miller), and she comes to his room and climbs into his bed to sleep
next to him. Garvin soon comes to the conclusion the girl has to be a
ghost, but that leaves him oddly unworried. Then one day, Garvin catches
Falshaw in his room with another woman, only it's a younger version of
Garvin. Shortly after that, he finds the girl floating in the well, dead -
or as dead as a ghost can be ... Garvin consults with the local doctor
(Peter Hughes) who tells him about the Falshaw family history: The
Falshaws did indeed have a girl, the girl whose ghost Garvin sees
frequently, but for Mrs Falshaw, the pregnancy was somewhat plagued with
depression, which led to Mr Falshaw getting himself a girlfriend, who
moved in with them when the girl was born, supposedly to help in the
household and look after the kid, but really it was more for Falshaw's
sake. Mrs Falshaw did get so depressed over that that she blamed her girl
on everything, and the girl's death was a direct result of mum catching
her husband with the other woman. Now mum, who's half dead since the
incident, doesn't want to have the baby she's pregnant with, while the
little ghost girl is looking for her mother's love. Garvin tries to
persuade Mrs Falshaw to give both the unborn child and her dead daughter a
chance, but to no avail, the baby is born dead - but somehow the dead new
baby can make Mrs Falshaw come to terms with her first daughter ... A
tale that's atmospheric in an old-fashioned way and that spins a yarn
mysterious enough to keep the viewer interested. Unfortunately though, the
ending is a major letdown: The film as a whole is great in giving out
clues left and right, but in the end they all only fall into the expected
places, and the a bit too happy ending seems to come out of nowhere and
leaves a few too many questions open to be satisfactory. Not bad while
it lasts, but a disappointment in the end.
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