
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.

as Oscar Hopkins

as Lucinda Leplastrier

as Reverend Dennis Hasset

as Hugh Stratton

as Mr. Jeffries

as Mr. Tomasetti

as Theophilus

as Wardley-Fish

as Betty Stratton

as Narrator (voice)

as Elderly Parishoner

as Miss Shaddock

as Percy Smith

as Miriam Chadwick

as Jimmy D'Abbs

as Young Lucinda

as Elizabeth Leplastrier

as Abel Leplastrier

as Young Oscar

as Mrs. Williams

as Fanny Drabble

as College Student

as College Student

as College Student

as George Loxwood

as College Student

as Mr. Ahearn

as Mrs. Ahearn

as Steamer Captain

as Frazer

as Hotel Maid

as Society Gossip

as Society Gossip

as Miss Malcolm

as Charley Fig

as Dog Pit Caller

as Belgian Boy

as Belgian Grandmother

as Belgian Mother

as Glassworks Foreman

as Miss Mary Hasset

as Publican's Wife