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''The Thirteenth Tale'' is a British drama television film that first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 December 2013. It is an adaptation of Diane Setterfield's gothic novel ''The Thirteenth Tale''. ==Plot== Biographer Margaret Lea (Olivia Colman) arrives at the country house of famous novelist Vida Winter (Vanessa Redgrave). She's been invited to stay there and help Vida write her biography before she dies of terminal cancer. Margaret is hesitant, as Vida's known for spinning a different lie each time she's asked about her background in interviews, so she requests some verifiable information from public record. Vida tells her her birth name was Adeline March and the local newspapers wrote about a fire that burned down her family home when she was seventeen, of which she also bears the proof of in the form of a key-shaped burn on her palm. With Margaret satisfied that she's telling the truth this time, Vida begins to tell her the events leading up to the fire. She grew up at Angelfield, the decaying family estate, with her identical twin sister Emmeline. Their mother Isabelle was distracted by the abuse she suffered at the hands of her unhinged brother Charlie, and eventually taken away to a mental asylum, so the two were mostly left to their own devices, becoming unruly and anti-social. The only adult supervision they had came from the two servants, nicknamed "Missus" and "John-the-dig." A governess is hired, Hester Barrow, who has little effect on the girls behaviour. Hester speaks to the local doctor about the girls and proposes they are separated as a medical experiment to see if their behaviour improves. It doesn't, as they are both heartbroken at their forced separation. Adeline will not speak and Emmeline weeps constantly. Hester and the doctor are caught kissing by the doctor's wife, and they both disappear from the village. Vida tells Margaret it's thought they went to America. By the time the girls were seventeen, they were all alone at Angelfield. Isabelle died in the asylum, and a week later Charlie killed himself. Missus and John-the-dig decided not to notify the police, as the girls would be taken away and they'd lose their jobs. Both Missus and John-the-dig fell to their deaths; Missus over three flights over a bannister, and John off an unsecure ladder. Though it looked like an accident, Adeline could tell the ladder's safety catch had been toyed with. Fearing what might have happened if she told the authorities they were alone, Adeline pretended Charlie was merely on holiday in Peru. She was assisted in this lie by Ambrose, a boy John had hired to help out after Missus' died. John's death troubles Margaret, as Vida insists Emmeline and Ambrose couldn't have done it, leaving her as the only possible suspect. Between interviews she goes to explore Angelfield, and is frightened away by someone. She later learns this is Aurelius Love, a harmless man who occasionally camps out at the house. When Vida asks her about her own life, she breaks down and admits she had a twin who was hit by a car as a child, something she's always blamed herself for. Margaret hears noises and weeping in the house at night and sees a woman in white roaming the garden, Margaret confronts her and asks what she wants, but her speech is unintelligible. She then sees Vida go to the woman's room and feed her. Margaret then realizes there weren't two girls at Angelfield, but three. Vida confirms this, revealing she wasn't Adeline, but the daughter of Charlie, abandoned at the estate by her unknown mother. Missus and John-the-dig kept her existence a secret from the world, as she was probably the product of rape. The real Adeline was dangerously violent and jealous of anyone who got Emmeline's attention. She pushed Missus over the stairs and meddled with John-the-dig's ladder to make it unstable. Ambrose was fired after Vida discovered he had got Emmeline pregnant. She gave birth to a baby boy at Angelfield, and it was obvious Adeline was jealous of him. Vida caught her preparing to burn the baby alive, and managed to sneak him away and leave him on a doorstep in the nearby village, where he was subsequently taken in and named Aurelius Love. When Vida returned to Angelfield, the room was ablaze and Emmeline was fighting Adeline, thinking her child was dead. She managed to drag Emmeline out the room and lock it, but not before the two of them were burned. Trapped inside, Adeline burned to death, and the key-shaped scar on Vida's palm was a result of her locking the door of the room whilst the key was red hot. When the fire brigade arrive, they assume Vida is Adeline. Emmeline is the woman in white in the garden, and the events of her girlhood have sent her insane, but Vida has felt honour bound to care for her despite her illness. Margaret makes a final journey to Angelfield, which is in the process of being demolished. There she finds Aurelius Love, whom Vida's doctor told Margaret used to camp out in the abandoned house, and he tells her he meant he didn't mean to frighten her on her previous visit. There are police cars outside the house, and Aurelius tells her that a skeleton has been found during the demolition, presumably the remains of Adeline. Margaret returns to Vida's home to hear the end of the story. Moments after finishing, Vida passes away. Margaret decides to stay in the country for a little while. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Thirteenth Tale (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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