A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family’s patriarch dies an unexpected death.

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio…

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.