A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

• DirectorClive Rees
• Release28 March 1989
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 40m
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  6.344
  16 reviews
• Productions

  American Continental Corp., Golden Swan, ITV Central, 20th Century Fox