Plot: Sir Clifford has returned from the Great War to his estate near Sheffield, paralyzed from the waist down. Lady Constance, his young wife, cares for him, but she's lifeless, enervated. Her physician prescribes the open air, and she finds a quiet retreat at the hut - the workplace - of Parkin, the estate's gamekeeper. The rhythms of nature awaken Connie - daffodils, pheasant chicks - and soon she and Parkin become lovers. She's now radiant. Parkin, too, opens up. Class distinctions and gender roles may be barriers to the affair becoming more. Connie's trip to France, with her father and sister, bring the lovers to a nuanced resolution.
Alternative Plot: Young and beautiful Lady Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands) lives a life of comfort on the lavish estate owned by her much older husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley (Hippolyte Girardot), who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he was gravely injured in World War I. Increasingly bored with her comfortable but unromantic marriage, she falls into a passionate, emotional but scandalizing love affair with the rugged estate gardener, Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch).
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