A four-part adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1900 novel, dramatised by Alun Richards. Starring Brian Deacon as the titular Lewisham, a young man with intellectual ambitions whose life is changed after a meeting with one Ethel Henderson.
After a year of marriage, George and Ethel's relationship is beginning to break down among financial hardship, imagined dalliances and George's unfulfilled intellectual ambitions. Are they able to reconcile their various differences?