He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.

Cast

Alan Howard

Clement Scott

Phoebe Nicholls

Louie Jermy

John McEnery

Algernon Swinburne

Richard Wilson

Theodore Watts-Dunton

John Shrapnel

George Sims

Jonathan Hyde

Wilson Barrett

Isla Blair

Constance Scott