From the play "Nationale 6" by Jean-Jacques Bernard
Adapted for television by Alfred Shaughnessy
[Starring] Josephine Griffin, Wilfrid Lawson, Ellen Pollock, Bryan Forbes, Peter Cushing

The action takes place in the living room of a little house in Burgundy on Nationale 6, one of the French main roads.
Time: The Present.
(Second performance: Thursday at 7.30)

From the window of a little house in France a young girl watches the cars flash by on Route Nationale 6; some are headed south for Marseilles, and thence for Africa and India; others roar north-wards on their way to Paris.
For Francine and her loving father, Michel, the little window facing the road teems like a gateway to a land of dreams... They share the secret belief that one day the road will bring some handsome traveller to the little house and love into the young girl's empty life.

A sudden fall of rain, a gust of wind, and the door blows open to reveal a young man on the threshold, Francine and her father sense that a dream has come true. Robert, a young painter, is journeying to Nice with his father, a distinguished novelist; their car has skidded into a ditch and they are stranded.

Antoine Vanier, now weary of travel and searching for the peace of mind and happiness that has always eluded him, finds it in a gentle, simple family circle. Robert, cultured, much travelled, and with a heart as young as springtime, settles down to paint the virgin beauty of Francine's features. A brief interlude of romance and happiness causes Francine to ask her father: 'Is it really happening or is it all a dream from which one must awake to reality? The play gives the answer.
(Alfred Shaughnessy)