Amy's sister, Constance, runs the Godwin household. Charles's wife, Amy Godwin, is paralysed and catatonic due to a horseriding accident. The anonymous Englishman is Charles Godwin, a landowner and struggling sheep farmer, who can barely keep the creditors of his philandering father, Lord Clare, at bay. She begins to keep a journal of watercoloured flowers and plants, adding a page for each of the holidays and her daughter's birthdays which occur while they are apart. Over the coming years, Elisabeth never forgets her child. Nine months later (10 August 1838), Elisabeth gives birth to a girl, and as agreed, gives up her daughter to the care of the father. Their feelings grow after they converse on the beach and at the hotel. Despite their wish for detachment, they develop a deeply passionate connection during their lovemaking by firelight. They meet over three nights at a coastal hotel and have sex. In 1837, French-speaking Swiss governess Elisabeth Laurier agrees to bear a child for an anonymous English landowner in return for money (£500) needed to pay her father's debts. Firelight was Nicholson's first film as a director. Filmed on location in Firle, England and Calvados, France, the film premiered at the Deauville American Film Festival on 14 September 1997. The girl's father is the anonymous landowner. Seven years later, the woman is hired as a governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. When the child is born, the woman gives up the child as agreed. The film is about a woman who agrees to bear the child of an anonymous English landowner in return for payment to resolve her father's debts. Firelight is a 1997 period romance film written and directed by William Nicholson and starring Sophie Marceau and Stephen Dillane.
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