Based on Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, this Masterpiece Theatre adaptation stars Emilia Fox as Mrs. De Winter, the second wife of the aging aristocrat Maxim De Winter (Dance). Mrs. De Winter, a young middle class girl, met her husband while he was traveling, and the two almost instantly fell in love, even though Maxim was still grieving over his wife, Rebecca, that died only one year earlier. The two impulsively decide to get married and enjoy a blissful romance until the two return to Manderlay, Maxim's estate, and Mrs. De Winter finds that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone there, especially the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Rigg), who goes so far as to refer to her as the second Mrs. De Winter.