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.
Emma Thompson
Jonathan Pryce
Steven Waddington
Samuel West
Rufus Sewell
Penelope Wilton
Janet McTeer
Jeremy Northam
Alex Kingston
Richard Clifford
David Ryall
Stephen Boxer
Peter Blythe
Sebastian Harcombe
Annabel Mullion
Daniel Betts