Coky Giedroyc & Richard Valentine co-direct this ITV production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. Former nun Maria (Kara Tointon) becomes the governess for a large family who live in the shadow of their domineering & repressed widower father Captain Georg von Trapp (Julian Ovenden). Along with the required discipline Maria brings love, music & excitement into the children's lives & also eventually begins to have an effect on their father. But just when things are looking up, the rise of Nazism & the looming threat of war darkens all of their futures.