In 1952 ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman (Robert Pugh) whisks naive young Mary (Helen McCrory) off her feet and marries her. They move into the big house overlooking the town where Charles' engineering factory dominates the landscape and, in quick succession, three sons (Simon, James and Robert) and a daughter (Alice) are born. Exhausted by motherhood and disillusioned with marriage to a man whose greatest romantic passion is reserved for his factory, sensitive wayward Mary seeks solac ...[Read Story ]