a young solicitor in sent to a remote area to wrap up the estate of a recently decease client . when he arrive he find that he be make less than welcome by the local villager and that his deceased client be not like . to speed thing up he decide to move from the local inn and take up residence in her home and a house that be usually fogbound and approach only by a causeway that be block off by the sea most of the day . once there he see vision of a woman in black and be she real or imaginary and he be also subject to the blood curdle cry of a woamn and child apparently drown in the marsh and these event take their toll on him and he soon become quite terrify . atmospheric tv adaptation of a famous play by susan hill and that spend it first third build up it character and before move to the creepy country house and it poor colour contrast give away it tv root immediately and this really should have be in black and white and but still a a ghost story it have a couple of unsettling moment and still though after wait so long to see it i must say i be sadly just a little underwhelmed .