Director Rolf von Sydow. Production 1999.Cast: Doris Schretzmayer, Florian Fitz, Renate Schroeter.
The London architect Jane Murchinson is overjoyed. In the near future she will be marrying her great love, the doctor David Douglas who is just about to set up a clinic of his own. In addition, Jane has learned that she is pregnant.
However, before she can give David the joyful news, he is called to his father who is dangerously ill with a heart condition. He arrives just in time to take his father in his arms once again and bid farewell to him. When the will is read, David learns that his father has left him nothing but a great pile of debts. David fights desperately for his inheritance, but the creditors are not willing to wait any longer and so David does not only have to sell his beloved family home, Oak Trees - the savings for his own clinic are also swallowed up.
David, who has no idea of Jane's pregnancy and is afraid that he will no longer be able to offer the woman he loves her accustomed state of life, separates from a completely bewildered Jane, leaves London, moves to Cornwall and takes up a post there at the clinic belonging to Walter Gill, who is on close terms with the painter Eve Livingston, an old and very good friend of David and his father. While David has been toiling away for months at the clinic and with great grief sold his beloved family home Oak Tree to the estate agent John Tyson, in London Jane tries to forget the pain and disappointment which David has caused her and concentrate on her son Nicolas who has been born in the meantime.
It looks as though the story with David is really over. A situation which puts Jane's father in a particularly good mood as we was always of the opinion that David was not the right man for his daughter. But fate wants it differently: John Tyson, who is a friend of Jane's father Michael, asks him to undertake the renovation works at Oak Tree. And the latter passes the assignment on to Jane, without telling her who had once been the owner of Oak Tree. Jane travels to Cornwall with John Tyson, who falls passionately in love with her, sees the lovely old house and is immediately fascinated. She spends the next weeks with her small son in Cornwall and manages the renovation works from there. She becomes friends with Eve Livingston who quickly finds out who Jane is. And that she has a son from David.
Eve, who has long been resisting a marriage to Dr. Walter Gill, has long since sensed that David is not happy. Now she knows why. And she thinks that Jane should return to David. But Jane has her pride. After all, David left her and not the other way round ...
