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Eleven-year-old Nell doesn't fit in anywhere, not at home nor at school. During a visit with her aunt in the English countryside, she finds a kindred soul in mischievous but goodhearted wild girl Angel. The isolated rural setting makes a believable backdrop for this story, a mix of realism and fantasy, about the fates of two young girls and a local legend.