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
