He reviews his farming childhood, his happy marriage to a good woman called Rachel and his wartime service in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Brigade, as he encounters a series of lovers, drifters, loners, psychotic hunters and sick illegal immigrants all of whom have something to teach him.

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Then there's his awkward romance with a lonely woman (Miranda Richardson, very good as usual) who works at the radio station where he preaches on Sunday mornings.

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The judge explained that while Uddin was a man of exemplary character, with a good work record and regarded by his former partner as a "good man and father", he had assaulted a vulnerable young woman in front of their young son and as such had breached the trust she had placed in him.

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