Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and after a couple of meetings they decide to go ahead. Once on the island things prove a lot less idyllic than in the movies, and gradually it becomes clear that it is Lucy who has the desire and the strength to try and see the year through.

• DirectorNicolas Roeg
• Release5 March 1986
• Genre
  Adventure / Drama
• Duration1h 57m
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• Rate
  

  6.3
  117 reviews
• Productions

  United British Artists (UBA), The Cannon Group