They saved a stranger from the sea. In return he stole their hearts.

This heartwarming film stars Academy Award®-winners Judi Dench and Maggie Smith as two sisters whose quiet lives dramatically change when they discover Andrea, (Daniel Brühl, Good Bye Lenin!), a badly-injured young foreigner washed ashore near their coastal home in pre-war England. Nursing Andrea back to health appeals to Janet's (Smith) more maternal instincts but for Ursula (Dench), the young man's presence evokes an indefinable longing for a life not lived.