Lone Widahl-Madsen is a clarinetist, composer and actress. She's best known for her role as Miss Grey, Willoughby's fiancé with a dowry, in Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Based on director Lotte Svendsen's own memories of her childhood on the Baltic island of Bornholm, but though it is set in 1981 the conflicts portrayed do not seem far away. At the start of the film Lars Erik and his wife Sonja are doing well on the Baltic island of Bornholm. Lars Erik is a successful fisherman, Sonja is a traditional housewife, proud of their new house bulging with consumer goods. Their love for each other is the sturdy footing on which their home is founded. Lars Erik employs three men on his trawler, and spends as fast as he earns, so when fishing quotas are cut he faces a crisis. One by one his men leave the boat, but he refuses to give up. Being a fisherman is like being a farmer - you depend on the wealth of mother nature herself. However, mother nature is like romance, highly capricious!
Em virtude da morte do marido, uma viúva e as três filhas passam a enfrentar dificuldades financeiras, pois praticamente toda a herança foi para um filho do primeiro casamento, que ignora a promessa feita no leito de morte de seu pai que ampararia as meias-irmãs. Neste contexto, enquanto uma irmã prática (Emma Thompson), usando a razão como principal forma de conduzir as situações, a outra (Kate Winslet) se mostra emotiva, sem se reprimir nunca com uma sensibilidade flor da pele.
