
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.

as Dora Carrington

as Lytton Strachey

as Ralph Partridge

as Gerald Brenan

as Mark Gertler

as Lady Ottoline Morrell

as Vanessa Bell

as Beacus Penrose

as Frances Partridge

as Clive Bell

as Mayor

as Military Rep

as Phillip Morrell

as Roger Senhouse

as Mary Hutchinson

as Porter

as Johnny Boy (uncredited)