In Jane Campion's haunting 19th-century romance, Holly Hunter stars as Ada, a mute woman whose father offers her hand in marriage to a New Zealand farmer named Stewart (Sam Neill). Leaving her Scottish home with little more than her young daughter Fiona (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano, Ada is forced into a loveless marriage, but soon enters into a clandestine affair with Stewart's neighbor George Baines (Harvey Keitel).
