Frank Mills

Not so aged widow Thelma Caldicot is coerced into a resthome by her manipulative son and daughter-in-law after the death of her bullying husband. Apathy turns to anger and then action as the medication is discarded and Thelma discovers her mettle. She and her aged cohorts stage a rebellion but the result is something nobody envisaged. (imdb)

The original tale tells the story of Rev. Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, who tells a rector the tale of how, while searching an abbey library he had stumbled across clues leading him the hidden treasure of a disgraced abbot. (Wikipedia)

In the early 1900's in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, and two cousins. Christina finds herself struggling with classicism and during War must keep the Flambards afloat by herself. (imdb)