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My House in Umbria
My House in Umbria is a 2003 American made-for-television drama mystery film, loosely based on the 1991 novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives. The film stars Maggie Smith and Chris Cooper, and was directed by Richard Loncraine.
An unlikely group of people come together to support one another in solace and friendship, after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack of the train carriage they were sharing in Italy.
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy, where she runs a pensione for tourists. Mrs Delahunty settled in Italy to flee from a somewhat traumatic past which still haunts her, and lives alone apart from a few servants and her manager Quinty.
One day, while taking a shopping trip to Milan, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her villa for recuperation. Of these are "the General" a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German photographer, and Aimee, an American child who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
As the group recover from their ordeal (in which the General lost his daughter, and Werner lost his girlfriend and suffered considerable burns to his arm and torso), the explosion is being investigated by local policeman Inspector Girotti. Responding to the warmth and kindness of Mrs Delahunty and the others, Aimee begins to speak again, while the local authorities seek out any relatives who might be able to take her in.
They eventually locate Aimee's uncle Thomas Riversmith, a university professor in the US. He agrees to take her back to the USA to live with his wife and himself, though they have little time for (and no experience with) raising children. They are particularly concerned about trying to raise a child who has been through such a traumatic experience.
Via flashbacks, it is revealed that Mrs. Delahunty was an orphan who was molested as a child by her adoptive father. At a young age she fled England with a travelling salesman and spent years living as a prostitute before Quinty convinced her to move to Italy.
Mrs Delahunty grows to like her new housemates and invites the General and Werner to stay indefinitely. She also works hard to find common ground with Aimee's uncle and tries to convince him to leave Aimee with her in Italy rather than taking the child back to America to a loveless home.
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My House in Umbria
My House in Umbria is a 2003 American made-for-television drama mystery film, loosely based on the 1991 novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives. The film stars Maggie Smith and Chris Cooper, and was directed by Richard Loncraine.
An unlikely group of people come together to support one another in solace and friendship, after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack of the train carriage they were sharing in Italy.
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy, where she runs a pensione for tourists. Mrs Delahunty settled in Italy to flee from a somewhat traumatic past which still haunts her, and lives alone apart from a few servants and her manager Quinty.
One day, while taking a shopping trip to Milan, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her villa for recuperation. Of these are "the General" a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German photographer, and Aimee, an American child who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
As the group recover from their ordeal (in which the General lost his daughter, and Werner lost his girlfriend and suffered considerable burns to his arm and torso), the explosion is being investigated by local policeman Inspector Girotti. Responding to the warmth and kindness of Mrs Delahunty and the others, Aimee begins to speak again, while the local authorities seek out any relatives who might be able to take her in.
They eventually locate Aimee's uncle Thomas Riversmith, a university professor in the US. He agrees to take her back to the USA to live with his wife and himself, though they have little time for (and no experience with) raising children. They are particularly concerned about trying to raise a child who has been through such a traumatic experience.
Via flashbacks, it is revealed that Mrs. Delahunty was an orphan who was molested as a child by her adoptive father. At a young age she fled England with a travelling salesman and spent years living as a prostitute before Quinty convinced her to move to Italy.
Mrs Delahunty grows to like her new housemates and invites the General and Werner to stay indefinitely. She also works hard to find common ground with Aimee's uncle and tries to convince him to leave Aimee with her in Italy rather than taking the child back to America to a loveless home.