It switchings between the present and the past .
It tells the story of Ann Lord , a woman on the precipice of her death ( Redgrave ) , who , bedridden in body , but not in spirit , remembers her tumultuous life the mid-1950s .
Switching between the present and the past , it tells the story of Ann Lord , a woman on the precipice of her death ( Redgrave ) , who , bedridden in body , but not in spirit , remembers her tumultuous life the mid-1950s .