Howard Ward

Lady Constance Chatterley (Holliday Grainger) enjoys a happy marriage to the dashing aristocrat Sir Clifford Chatterley (James Norton), until he is severely wounded serving in the First World War. Confined to a wheelchair and impotent, Clifford becomes more distant. Constance finds comfort in the company of the estate's brooding, lonely gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors (Richard Madden).

Roy Tunt, a birdwatcher in a hide on the Suffolk mudflats awaiting a sighting of the rare sociable plover. Into the hide crashes Dave John, muddy, blood-stained, edgy. As the two men talk, they discover they have a lot in common and begin to form a friendship until a newsflash on Roy's radio giving news of a police manhunt sets them both on a path to tragedy.