Summer's Lease
A family's holiday in Tuscany leads in intrigue and mystery in this BBC classic
S01E02: Where the Water Goes
Overview
Molly Pargeter is a forty-something wife and mother of three girls, who leads a stable but dull life in 1980s West London. She feels overweight and there is no passion in her relationship with her husband Hugh, who is secretly seeing another woman. For most of her life she has found escape in detective novels and books on art, especially about the fifteenth century Italian fresco painter Piero Della Francesca. Then in a newspaper's small ads Molly sees the details of a villa in Tuscany, Italy to let and after travelling to Italy to view the villa "La Felicita" she decides to take it for the family's August holiday.
Episodes
Cast
Susan Fleetwood
Molly Pargeter
John Gielgud
Haverford Downs
Michael Pennington
Hugh Pargeter
Rosemary Leach
Nancy Leadbetter
Caroline Waldron
Henry Pargeter
Veronica Lazăr
Baronessa Dulcibene
Suzanne Hay
Sam Pargeter
Samantha Glenn
Jack Pargeter
Siria Betti
Giovanna
