 10 April 1984), directed by Ben Bolt for producer Michael Wearing, was set in rural England during the early days of the Second World War.Here, a detachment of the local Home Guard are at war with a forceful farm widow and her land girls, the latter group suspected of being German sympathisers or lesbians, or even of witchcraft.The imaginative effect to which Pirie put his script in establishing an atmosphere of strangeness – suppressed hate and passion, parochial paranoia – remains the most striking thing about the film.