Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Ian McKellen
as D.H. Lawrence

Janet Suzman
as Frieda Lawrence

Ava Gardner
as Mabel Dodge Luhan

Penelope Keith
as Dorothy Brett

Maurizio Merli
as Angelo Ravagli

John Gielgud
as Herbert G. Muskett

Jorge Rivero
as Tony Luhan

James Faulkner
as Aldous Huxley

Mike Gwilym
as John Middleton Murry

Massimo Ranieri
as Piero Pini