In the 1930s Ricky Masters, an English businessman, marries Madeleine, a fine match socially, but the cultured aesthete is more and more attracted to her sister Dinah, a 'Bohemian' painter, and as they spend time together their affair becomes physical, even all the way; yet when she gets pregnant they decide to leave his marriage intact. He raises his son with Madeleine, who tells him only in 1946 that she knew after he had a car accident during a 'business trip' to southern France that caused Dinah to loose her unborn daughter; now Ricky wants to leave Madeleine, but she refuses a divorce; after a time in hospital he is told Dinah chose to move back to France without him while she's really living in London, still not the last twist of the drama...

Starring:

Alison Reid, Andrew Havill, Eleanor Bron, Gillian Hanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Jenny Howe, John Rowe, Mark Williams, Olivia Williams, Paul Bettany, Paul Ridley, Ray Donn, Shaughan Seymour, Simon Day, Tom Ward

Genre:

Drama, Romance