Movie Description:
SOUTH RIDING tells a fraught love story and paints a panoramic portrait of a Yorkshire community in the long aftermath of the First World War. Indepression-hit Thirties Britain, Sarah Burton returns from London to her Yorkshire hometown to take up the post of headmistress at a struggling girls`school. Full of ambition, she is determined to create a great school and inspire hergirls. As Sarah struggles against the crippling povertyof the district, she meets those at the heart of the local community: her brilliant but poor student, Lydia Holly;the country`s first woman Alderman, Mrs.Beddows, whose sensible demeanor belies a girlish heart; the noble but ludicrousMethodist preacher, Councilor Huggins; Sarah`ssocialist suitor, Joe Astell;and the proud, haunted and almost ruined landowner, Robert Carne--a man Sarah finds herself drawn towards even though he stands for everything shedetests. Engrossing and entertaining, SOUTH RIDING vividly brings to life a rural communityon the brink of change.
