Rachel Ward played "Meggie", who as a child already falls in love with father "Ralph". When she's finally of age the father and "Meggie" start having a fatal affair. Father "Ralph" eventually leaves "Meggie" behind and goes to Rome. After some years, he returns to her and she becomes pregnant - but she does not tell the father that the child is his. Only when the boy dies way too young, she tells "Ralph" that he was the father...