this Powerful, Award-winning Pbs Drama Stars Juliet Stevenson (truly, Madly, Deeply; Bend It Like Beckham), Trevor Eve (in The Name Of The Father), And Minnie Driver (good Will Hunting, Grosse Pointe Blank).

Dvd Special Features Include Background Essay By Writer Paula Milne And Cast Filmographies.
"splendidly Wicked" —the New York Times
"smashing!" —tv Guide
"a True Pbs ‘masterpiece’. . . A Brilliant, Incisive Political Potboiler"—los Angeles Times

Flora (Juliet Stevenson in a tour de force performance) is the politician's wife. The politician, in this smart, unconventional thriller, is Tory MP Duncan Matlock (Troy's Trevor Eve). The setting is 1990s Britain. When they met, Duncan was a nobody, while Flora was from money. She married for love... and thought he did, too. Over the years, he became a powerful leader and she was always by his side. Then she--along with the rest of the nation--finds out he's been cheating. The woman (Minnie Driver) is an escort girl. Flora is devastated, but decides to put up a brave front. Secretly, however, she embarks on an ingenious plan to regain everything she's lost: pride, dignity, identity. There are no guns or knives in this award-winning miniseries (just a little nudity and profanity). Featuring a first-rate cast, including the late Ian Bannen (Waking Ned Devine) as the lynchpin in Flora's plan. --Kathleen C. Fennessy