Burt Kwouk

All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village.

A Chinese government agent arrives in Paris to carry out a sensitive, top-secret mission.

A young Englishwoman comes home from the war, from the heady days of fighting in the resistance - into marriage with a foreign office diplomat and the apathy of post-war England. As the golden dreams and excitement of those days give way to her new mundane life so her sanity gives way to madness.