Writer
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Adaptation
Em uma pequena cidade da Califórnia Laura Reynolds (Elizabeth Taylor), uma artista com um jeito muito livre de viver, cria Danny (Morgan Mason), seu filho adolescente. Ela gostaria de educá-lo em casa mas as autoridades não permitem, então ela manda Danny para uma escola dirigida por Edward Hewitt (Richard Burton), um sacerdote episcopal que é casado com Claire (Eva Marie Saint). Porém, quando vai visitar o filho, Laura se apaixona por Edward e é correspondida.
Screenplay
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
