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«She knew his face. His touch. His voice. She knew everything about him... But the truth» После окончания Гражданской войны в США Джек Соммерсби, которого все считали погибшим, возвращается в родной городок. Джек налаживает хозяйство, восстанавливает отношения с женой, однако у неё появляются подозрения: действительно ли этот человек — её муж? John “Jack“ Sommersby (Gere) left his farm to fight in the American Civil War and is presumed dead after six years. Despite the hardship of working their farm in Vine Hill, Tennessee, his apparent widow Laurel (Foster) is content in his absence, because Jack was an unpleasant and abusive husband. She makes remarriage plans with one of her neighbors, Orin Meacham (Pullman), who has been helping her and her young son with the farmwork. One day, Jack seemingly returns with a change of heart. He is now kind and loving to Laurel and their young son, Rob. In the evenings, he reads to them from Homer’s Iliad, which the old Jack would never have done. He claims that the book
