by Sandra Brennan
synopsis
Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly med student in a Glasgow slum. His fiancee also dies in childbirth. Her brother, who survives, begins raising her baby girl who grows up to have an affair with a lab assistant. Her "father" disapprove and threatens to destroy the wedding. She retaliates by poisoning him and then gets married. She bears a son. Unfortunately she has never recovered from the guilt of her earlier murder and ends up taking her own life. Later her son grows up to discover a vaccine for a fatal disease.
characteristics
- Poison
- Pregnancy
- Pregnant
- Romance
- Past
- Parent
- Love
- Marriage
- Medical
- Romantic
- Sickness
- Toddlers
- Vaccine
- Wedding
- Suicide
