Memoirs Of A Survivor

From the Best-Selling Novel by Doris Lessing

Julie Christie and Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness Of King George) star in this powerful adaptation of the acclaimed international best-seller by Doris Lessing.

In a society ravaged by post-nuclear anarchy, a middle-aged woman attempts to survive in a lawless city by discovering a word of Victorian splendor within herself. But when she takes responsibility for an abandoned teenage girl, the two are drawn into the horrors of feral youth gangs who control the crumbling streets. What are the shocking rules of survival in this brutal world of the future? And what is the startling vision of truth from a fantasy world of the past?