Fact-based drama, chronicling the relationship between Bloomsbury group artist Dora Carrington and homosexual writer Lytton Strachey during the 1920s. Starring Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Samuel West, Rufus Sewell, Penelope Wilton, Steven Waddington, Peter Blythe, Janet McTeer, Jeremy Northam and Alex Kingston.

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.