Based on a novel by COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH, best selling author of The Thorn Birds, Tim is a 70s Australian classic. Mary Horton, a lonely, middle-aged American career woman living in Australia hires a handsome, young, mentally handicapped man named Tim to do yard-work. At first keeping her distance, Mary is drawn closer to Tim and as the weeks pass they form a bond. As the relationship deepens into romantic love, Tim's older sister Dawn resents Mary's intrusion into their lives and doubts the purity of the older woman's intentions. 1979 Pisces Productions