
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.

as Edith Jessie Thompson

as Percy Thompson

as Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters

as Ethel Graydon

as Mr. Carlton

as Avis Graydon

as Mrs. Lester

as William Graydon

as Newnie

as Mrs. Thompson

as Nora Lester

as Sgt. Mew

as Young Billy

as Young Harold

as Young Freddie

as Miss Prior

as Lily Thompson

as Nun

as Nun

as Kenneth

as Archie

as Mr Lester

as Mr Carlton's Whore

as Dr Maudsley

as Inspector Hall

as Mr. Justice Shearman

as Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett

as John Ellis

as Prison Chaplain