Louisa (Dominique Belcourt) has just told her new governess (Sophie Marceau), Elisabeth Laurier, (who unbeknownst to her is also her real biological mother) to bugger away. Elisabeth Laurier, now discovers that the child that was parted from her at birth, has in the meantime grown to be an uncontrollable brat, beloved only by her father, Charles Godwin (Steven Dillane). Elisabeth also realizes that if she doesn't take drastic action set her charge, (and daughter), on a proper course soon, she may be lost to her forever. BACKGROUND SYNOPSIS: In 1838, lovely Swiss governess Elisabeth Laurier (Played by Sophie Marceau, the French Princess of Wales in Braveheart) agrees to conceive and bear the child of an anonymous English landowner (Steven Dillane, he plays Thomas Jefferson in the John Adams TV series), in return for which he'll pay her £500. He needs an heir to carry on his line, but who's wife has suffered a serious riding accident shortly after marriage, and can no longer bear children (she's actually in a vegetative state). Miss Laurier needs the money to pay her father's debt, and obtain his release from prison; but she's fiercely independent, and refuses to surrender to the yoke of a loveless marriage just for financial convenience and security. So their mutual need brings them together. They meet for three days in a hotel on the coast of Normandy, during that time their relationship metamorphs from cold the mechanics of commercial contract sex, to a mutual lust, to a deep and abiding love. However, in spite of this awakened feeling between them, they part ways on their return to England, ostensibly never to see each other again. At the birth of their child (a daughter),she surrenders her as agreed to the midwife to hand over to the father. However, unlike as agreed, she can neither forget her child, nor the man that she bore it to. Seven years pass, when one day she arrives at a remote Sussex estate, to be the governess of a young girl. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be the same anonymous landowner who met with her years before in the Normandy hotel, and the child Louisa is their daughter. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess. I strongly urge you to read more about Firelight (1997) at IMDB, and to follow this link to watch it in 11 consecutive segments on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBJoNkFd5TA&feature=related Another link to watch this movie online is here: http://moviescollections.info/video/6698-Firelight.html One can also visit Firelight Screen Writer and Director, William Nicholson's site here: http://www.williamnicholson.com/qa/?failed#faq