A widowed teacher marries again, but her hopes of her daughter accepting a stepfather her own age, and her anticipation of a birthday picnic by the river are clouded by a series of murders in the district and by a fear rooted rather nearer home.
Cast
Billie Whitelaw
Margie
Iain Glen
Ray
Brenda Fricker
Ray's Mother
Sarah-Jane Holm
Della
Cassie Stuart
Ruth
Phil Smeeton
Mick
Jimmy Yuill
Man at Dyke
Julie McDonald
Prostitute
Ross Kemp
Police Officer
Trevor Peake
Police Officer
Robert Peters
Reporter
Joan Spall
Registrar
Peter Whitbread
Inspector Cartwright
Christopher Poole
Kerb Crawler
Simon Wakefield
Boy fishing
