Teresa is a spirited young girl chafing under the oppressive attitudes of 1930s society, and her father in particular. She fancies her poverty-stricken Latin tutor Johnathan Crow, without realising he merely considers her a pleasant diversion and nothing more, and eventually follows him from Sydney to London. En route she meets the gentle banker James Quick. Whilst navigating her relationships in London, including with a political poet bound for the Spanish Civil War, she experiences a transformation in her understanding of love. Based upon Christina Stead's best-selling Australian novel.

• UAA Films
• The Australian Film Commission
• Helen Buday
• Sam Neill
• Hugo Weaving
• Huw Williams
• Hugh Keays-Byrne
• Odile Le Clezio
• John Polson
• Nicholas Opolski