Desc: A State of Siege: Directed by Vincent Ward. With Anne Flannery, Peggy Walker, John Bullock, Peter McCauley. Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility, as an art teacher in a South Island private girls school, and decides to live out her dream: painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past.