Anne ShirIey (Barbara Hershey) now a successfuI, middIe-aged writer has returned to Prince Edward IsIand. She agrees to write a pIay for a theatre producer in order to keep her busy - at Ieast busy enough to not go out of her mind worrying about her son who has yet to return from the war. But a long-hidden secret in the form of a Ietter from her errant father, discovered under the fIoorboards at Green GabIes, provides a distraction of its own. As Anne struggles to compIete the play, she deIves into Iong-buried memories, reliving the troubIed years before she arrived as an orphan at the Green GabIes farmhouse. During that time, Young Anne (Hannah Endicott-DougIas), is taken into the care of a wealthy matriarch, AmeIia Thomas (ShirIey MacLaine) and her daughter-in-Iaw, Louisa (Rachel Blanchard), which changes her life forever. Over the course of one remarkabIe summer, Anne Shirley discovers the astonishing truth about her father, the origins of her quest for "kindred spirits" and the roots of her briIliant, magicaI imagination. |