

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend Percy Thomson. He survives the war but theirs is not a happy marriage. She doesn't really love him and he feels it every day. He's also possessive and their daily life is a constant battle. She meets and falls in love with Frederick Bywaters, her sister's one-time boyfriend. They have a long affair and her desperate attempts to get either a formal separation of divorce from her husband falls on deaf ears. They are at their wits end and Bywaters decides to do something about it. On a dark evening when Edith is walking with her husband, Bywaters stabs him to death. Edith is charged with murder along with Bywaters and both are found guilty. She claims her innocence right up until the day they are both executed by hanging in 1923. Based on a true story.
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Cast

Natasha Little
Edith Jessie Thompson

Nick Moran
Percy Thompson

Ioan Gruffudd
Frederick Edward Francis Bywaters

Imelda Staunton
Ethel Graydon

Tom Wilkinson
Mr. Carlton

Rachael Stirling
Avis Graydon

Diana Coupland
Mrs. Lester

Michael Bertenshaw
William Graydon

Daniel Brocklebank
Newnie

Elizabeth McKechnie
Mrs. Thompson
Judy Clifton
Nora Lester
Simon Paris
Sgt. Mew
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