Firelight(1998)
Passion has no limits.
In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of 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 father of the girl, 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.
Movie: Firelight
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Elisabeth Laurier
Charles Godwin
Louisa Godwin
John Taylor
Lord Clare
Constance
Molly Holland
Ellen
Mrs. Jago
Sussman
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