Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt break-up.
Production
Actual Orient Express locations—budget went to the train, not the script.
Costume
Cheryl Ladd's wardrobe screams 'I have a suitcase and something to prove.'
Director
Lawrence Gordon Clark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a TV movie filmed on the real Orient Express during its brief 1980s revival as a luxury tourist experience—most of the 'passengers' in background shots are actual wealthy travelers who didn't know they were in a Cheryl Ladd film.
The film accidentally captures peak 1980s anxiety about European travel and class mobility—Lily's American earnestness crashing against Alex's British reserve and old money decay feels like a metaphor for the decade's collapsing optimism.
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