A Crying Shame

For ten-year-old Christine home is a hostile troubling place. Her mother reserves her affection for her younger live-in-lover and for Waldo Christine's teenage brother. Christine viciously takes out her angry feelings on her Barbies and on a weaker girl in her class. Then on a family holiday in Scotland a tragic accident occurs for which Christine blames herself and panic-stricken she runs away with her four-year-old brother and hides in the back of a stranger's car.Agnes Stam is an elderly Dutch spinster making her annual summer pilgrimage to her family's holiday cottage on Mull. When she discover the little stowaways in her car she fails to report the missing children and allows them to stay. And so a little girl with a big guilty secret becomes a lonely old woman's salvation - and also her nemesis.