keeping mum (2005)

the young rosie jones travels alone by train in the quiet english countryside. while he serenely reads the latest issue of 'country life', a pool of blood forms under his large leather trunk. forty-three years later, walter goodfellow, the willing vicar of the little wallop parish, is so obsessed with preparing the perfect sermon that he does not notice that his family life is falling apart. his wife gloria has an affair with lance, his exuberant golf instructor. daughter holly changes her boyfriend a week. his son petey is the scapegoat for school bullies. gloria feels that she is losing control of her life. he can no longer stand the routine, a loveless marriage, the adventures of the children, the neighbor's dog. every night pray for salvation. then comes grace, the answer to the family's prayers: the new governess is a sweet and old gray-haired lady who carries a mysterious trunk with her. she will save the marriage of gloria and walter and bring the family together, "eliminating all their problems one by one, in the simplest way.