It was also nominated for a nine Primetime Emmy Awards, winning one for Jenny Agutter for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama.
[1] The film follows the relationship between Fritha (Jenny Agutter), an orphaned young girl, and Philip Rhayader (Richard Harris), a lighthouse keeper in the fishing village Great Marsh in Essex.
Set at the beginning of World War II, the film uses the backdrop of the ongoing political events and battles throughout the narrative.
As Germany invades Poland and the war begins, Rhayader applies to the Observer Corps, but is denied due to his disabilities.
She realises she had come to love Rhayader and is able to save one of the paintings he had made of her, as a child with the wounded goose, before the lighthouse and all other artwork are obliterated by a German pilot.