A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent. First, she gives her imagination to a law student in town, and next she takes a lover. When he refuses to run away with her, she takes up again with the law clerk. Her spending on dresses and furnishings mounts; these debts and her ill-advised professional counsel to her husband bring his ruin.
2000
HD
180min
United Kingdom
English
Tim Fywell
Greg Wise
Frances O'Connor
Eileen Atkins
Keith Barron
Jessica Oyelowo
Trevor Peacock
David Troughton
Stanley Lebor
Hugh Bonneville
based on novel or book
costume drama
extramarital affair
adulteress
