On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and daughter at a country fair. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge.
In 1990, CNN was a 24-hour news network in search of a 24-hour story. They find it in Baghdad when producer Robert Wiener and his partner arrive in Iraq on the eve of war. A Director's Guild Award-winning HBO movie.