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.

• Cinéa
• Freeway Films
• Emma Thompson
• Jonathan Pryce
• Steven Waddington
• Samuel West
• Rufus Sewell
• Penelope Wilton
• Janet McTeer
• Jeremy Northam