This one is much funnier and allows us Yanks to see a much lighter side of twice Oscar nominated actress Brenda Blethyn . It also maintains a streak of small Brit films that, like Waking Ned Devine and The Full Monty , are gangbusters comedy and sweet as fine chocolate. The talk in the town of Cornwall is that Grace Trevathan's husband was looking for the loo when he stepped out the door of a plane and plummeted ten thousand feet or so to his death. Y'see, Matthew has a small stash of hemp plants out behind the local RC church which provides a poor quality smoke for the local bartender and doctor and friends. But winter is coming in and his plants are getting sick and he asks the best plant person he knows, Grace, for help.
Grace recognizes the plants.
She knows they are illegal, but the beating horticulturist heart within allows her to take one and only one plant from its resting place, and save it in the quiet of her greenhouse. There, the weed grows like gangbusters. Grace rescues the remainder of Matthew's hidden stock and sets to work breeding new sprouts in a hydroponic garden. That takes an enormous amount of capital, specifically, hours and hours of the brightest light, which illuminates the countryside for miles around. The entire town sees the lightshow.