
While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.

as D.H. Lawrence

as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley

as Kate

as David

as Jessie Chambers

as Alice Dax

as William Hopkin

as Sallie Hopkin

as Lydia Lawrence

as Arthur Lawrence

as Young Lawrence