On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover. Paul is the boy from the manor house nearby, Jane's long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parents' friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.

Odessa Young
as Jane Fairchild

Josh O'Connor
as Paul Sheringham

Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù
as Donald

Patsy Ferran
as Milly

Emma D'Arcy
as Emma Hobday

Glenda Jackson
as Jane (Older)

Olivia Colman
as Mrs Clarrie Niven

Colin Firth
as Mr Godfrey Niven

Nathan Reeve
as Dick

Samuel Barlow
as Young Paul
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Told by way of a retrospective triptych of recollections from the now successful author "Jane" (Glenda Jackson), we are taken back in time to her younger self - Odessa Young - who portrays an orphaned young maid working in the home of the "Niven" family - Colin Firth and Olivia Colman. Over the cour...