On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare opportunity to spend time with her affluent neighbour Paul (Josh O'Connor), with whom she is entangled in an illicit affair . But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

Screenwriter Alice Birch (Normal People, Lady Macbeth) and French director Eva Husson (Bang Gang, Girls of the Sun) prove the perfect creative duo bringing rich sensuality to this heart-wrenching adaptation of Graham Swift's novel.