Deep in her sleep behind closed doors of the Audley estate, Lady Audley’s scandalous past haunts her dreams. Revelling in the luxury attained by marriage to Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) an aristocrat thirty years her senior, the beautiful and cunning Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh – Gormenghast) is also greatly admired by Sir Audley’s dashing nephew, Robert (Steven Mackintosh – Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), who begins to nurse suspicions that Lucy is implicated in the bizarre disappearance of his good friend, George Talboys (Jamie Bamber – Horatio Hornblower). Powerfully tempted by Lucy’s allures, Robert struggles to solve the mysterious puzzle of Lady Audley’s involvement, exposing dark secrets, deception and murder along the way.