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Firelight

Passion has no limits.

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth Laurier agrees to bear a child of an anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth, she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later, she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The girl's father, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.

19981h 43mRRomance, Drama

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About Firelight

Directors
William Nicholson
Cast
Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Dominique Belcourt, Kevin Anderson, Joss Ackland, Lia Williams
Genres
Romance, Drama
Content rating
R
Original language
English
Production countries
United Kingdom, United States of America
Status
Released

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