The settings are by the sea, it's a small fishing village, where Sarah Miles had her happiest days with a young fisherman who also loved her, but she went on her way to London to get caught up by a young doctor, who made her pregnant and married her. She knew it was wrong from there beginning, she always just wanted to get away, and finally she left him in the middle of a gloomy Christmas dinner and went back to her village, where she found her fisherman again, who was now engaged to be married. Her husband comes after her and finds her, but there is no settlement. Sarah Miles is left alone again feeling pity for both her men, while she is still happy enough, she says, to her landlord Cyril Cusack, who sees and understands everything but who also is content enough. It's an ordinary story but filmed with great sensitivity and finesse in its fine poetry of pictures and moods, nostalgic flashbacks and irrevocable realism. Nothing really happens, it's just how love and life works, for good, and for worse, and you will get over it.