A 79-year-old woman escapes her nursing home and London will never look the same.
Grace leaves her old folks' home to return to her birthplace in Lambeth, a place which has changed on the surface but at its heart is still the same.
Acting
Queenie Watts carries every frame like she's lived it.
Direction
Eyre's debut: tender observation, zero sentimentality.
Cinematography
Lambeth 1979: crumbling beauty in every shot.
Director
Richard Eyre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Richard Eyre's first directing credit; he'd later run the National Theatre.
Made for BBC's 'Play for Today'—the era when television dared to be this small and devastating.
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