The final film of legendary director John Huston based was on the closing story of James Joyce's Dubliners. Anjelica Huston is top-billed as Gretta Conroy, the niece (by marriage) of turn-of-the-century Irish spinsters Kate Morkan and Julia Morkan. At the home of these two curious ladies, Gretta is prodded into remembering her long-dead lover. She tearfully reveals to her husband that the deceased boy may well have died on her behalf.