A woman starts work as a nanny to a mute boy in a Victorian household. The boy's growing attachment to her however causes greater problems than his original detachment to his family. Part of the 1980 season of BBC Play for Today.

• BBC
• Nanette Newman
• Jennie Linden
• Nigel Hawthorne
• Avis Bunnage
• Keith Barron
• Annette Crosbie
• Paul Daneman
• Toby Scopes