Like the play , the film is set in the 1920s .
Biel plays young widow Larita , who impulsively marries John Whittaker in France and must face her disapproving in - laws on returning to England .
Like the play , the film is set in the 1920s and Biel plays young widow Larita , who impulsively marries John Whittaker in France and must face her disapproving in - laws on returning to England .