Return to the Ocean (eps. 19)

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Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life, beguiling characters – alsoinfuses the TV movies based on them. A constant in the Fforde canon of romance is a heroine who still dreams of Mr. Right in spite of coping with work and the demands of modernday-life. In this TV Movie it is the story of Claire.

After her failed marriage, Grace clings to her family home, Luckenham House, in the Hudson Valley north of New York. When she meets the young artist Elli, the two very different women become good…

Young caregiver Madison Carter is sent to a mansion in the Hudson Valley to care for the wealthy, elderly Olivia. There she also meets Olivia’s son-in-law John and his young daughter, who moved in…

Anna Wilcox’s first real job in monument conservation takes her to the Hudson Valley. She begins rather haplessly by facing down a big New York realtor that wants to tear down a picturesque…

Kay Foster hasn’t visited her family’s stables since her stepsister Alison married Kay’s big love. But when Kay hears from her ailing father that a virus is threatening the horses, she heads off to…

Young New York publishing house employee Flora Stanza is aghast when she learns that her mother is suffering from a serious illness and needs full-time care after the death of Flora's father. Flora's…

The reputable New York attorney Alicia Charles can’t believe her ears: destitute globetrotter and occasional musician Will Hillinger wants her to help him be awarded custody of the orphaned nine-year…

Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life,…

Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life,…

Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life,…

Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life,…

Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life,…

Set in the lush Hudson Valley north of NYC, Katie Fforde’s romances are ideal for transposing to the TV screen. Everything that makes her novels so popular – sparkling dialogues, love of life,…

New York’s publishing dynamo Ann and Rick Withers has only been separated for a few months now, but Rick is already in a new relationship with the author Mina Melrose. Precisely now, after years of…

In the second part of the “Katie Fforde“ trilogy Ursula Karven, playing lawyer Alicia Charles, unexpectedly finds a new family in New York at Christmas time. Alicia is about to embark on a skiing…

New York lawyer Alicia Charles is about to get married to attractive John, as her “adopted family” – musician Will and little Linus – crosses her plans. Alicia’s mother Jackie turns up…

Lynne and Howard Harper are finally about to make their dream of a six-month sailing trip in the Caribbean come true. But then something happens, the atmosphere grows tense, and the journey threatens…

Gwen Reynolds, an unconventional prison chaplain is forcibly transferred for disciplinary reasons to a small community in New England. In Ipswich, the place that Gwen’s mother, who has passed away a…

Charlotte and Alec Plentley are newly-married and live as a happy and successful couple in New York City. Then, however, their happiness is falling apart. Charlotte is accessories designer of a hip…

Karen Wood, a New York bookseller, can’t keep it secret from her teenage son any longer. She has to tell him that he was conceived with the help of an anonymous sperm donation. He’s shocked and runs…

Dancer Skye Rhodan is just 36 years old and super fit, yet the prospect of her career ending is looming and she is forced to decide which direction to steer her life in next. Skye doesn’t want to…

New York real estate agent Bella Castle’s divorce passes amicably and peacefully. But Bella is disconcerted to learn that her ex-husband Mick is to be a father again. She’s forced to admit that she’s…

Audrey is a Boston taxi driver whose passengers appreciate her quick wit and helpful personality. None of them would ever be able to guess that just a year ago, Audrey lost her 17-year-old son,…

While Lauren Cahill makes ends meet taking pictures for a local Boston photography studio, her younger, autistic brother, Anthony, is looked after in the idyllic Morningwood home. Just when it…

Lawyer Stella Sheridan would like to give her career a boost with a big case, when her mother pays her a visit: After being married for 40 years, Stella’s father is leaving her. But Barbara’s…

Lydia Elman is a far cry from being a helicopter mom, but when her daughter Holly falls for the school's bad boy, she resorts to drastic measures. School psychologist Lydia has a problem. Her 17…

Nothing could be further from publishing editor Jane Grant’s mind than a camper holiday, even when her husband Clark wants to finally realise his dream of a family adventure in the wilderness. But…

Hasn't it crossed every woman’s mind at least once that it would be best to send all men packing and marry their best friend? Paula and Emily do just that. Hotel owner and single parent Paula…

Can it be that Julia Gardener of all people has fallen victim to a marriage scam? A school principal blindly trusts someone for the first time in her life and ends up deeply regretting it. Julia is a…

When Maggie and her father George receive an eviction notice to leave their beautiful home and their tourist office on Plymouth pier, it's a disaster. Maggie confronts their landlord in Boston…

Ella wants to finally draw a line under her failed marriage and to start afresh. Yet suddenly she is landed with the child that was the grounds for the divorce in the first place. Mediator Ella…

When you hit the age of 60, you’re fired – this is the motto of the company Anne has spent 25 years of her life working for. But strictly speaking, the company’s obsession with youth only appears to…

Helen Carter decides to put herself to the test by quitting her old job and finally finishing her medical degree. But embarking on her new life as a student is far from easy. Helen’s professor doesn…

Music school teacher Emma Blum has a heart-breaking secret, one which not even her boyfriend Nick Sommerfeld knows. He does, however, have the feeling she is holding back from truly letting him into…

Rosie Goldschmitt causes a car accident. Afterwards, however, she rushes out of the hospital in Frankfurt so quickly that the doctors don’t get a chance to tell her about her brain tumor. Now it’s up…

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Format

1×90’

Available

ready-made

Produced by

Network Movie, Hamburg

Cast

various

Year of Production

2010 - present

Original Language

German

Broadcaster

ZDF

Writer

Jörg Tensing

Director

Helmut Metzger