Following their mother's tragic death in a car accident two young girls, 10 and 16, and their academic father move from Chicago to Genova (Genoa to us Brits). Here family tensions emerge, but what they find in Genova is a different kind of darkness, from the streets of the city into their hearts... find out more...

It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock, played by David Niven, who won an Oscar for his performance, a retired officer who likes to find out more...