The Grass Is Singing(1981)

movie - first aired/released 1981-08-30 - 105 min - audience 4.7

Drama

Directed by Michael Raeburn

In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.