In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.
- Genre: Drama, History, Romance, TV Movie
- Studio: Tyne Tees Television, World Wide International Television
- Keyword: based on novel or book, rich woman poor man, teacher, sibling rivalry, poverty, shipbuilding, british class system, dockworker, 1900s
- Cast: Owen Teale, Sean Bean, Clare Holman, Billie Whitelaw, Ian Bannen, Jane Horrocks