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An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's country estate.

A story well ahead of its time, We follow the life of Lady Chatterley, a woman born to a life of wealth and privilege, who soon finds herself married to a man that she eventually falls out of love with. Lady Chatterley engages in a torrid affair with a gamekeeper on their English estate, discovering more desire and intimacy than she thought possible. When she realizes that she has fallen heart and soul, she breaks all traditions of the day and seeks happiness with the man she loves.

After marrying Baronet Clifford Chatterley (Matthew Duckett), Constance "Connie" Reid (Emma Corrin) moves from London to the impressive Chatterley estate in Wragby. They consummate the marriage and Clifford returns to fight in World War I the following day. Weeks later, Clifford comes home, paralyzed from the waist down, leading him to need full time care. Mr. and Mrs. Warren are the caretakers of the estate.

Connie does her best but, over time, his handicap, as well as his impotence and lack of affection toward her, begin to wear on her. The couple hires a bunch of staff to help maintain the estate, but Clifford insists that Connie takes care of him personally. Clifford starts writing a novel and hosts some parties for his other writer friends. Connie is bored. Clifford won't allow Connie to go visit her sister Hilda in London for a few weeks as he needs her there with him. Connie starts taking long walks around the estate to have some personal time. Connie learns that the miners in their village are protesting against their working conditions.

As Clifford wants an heir, he suggests Connie has an affair purely to impregnate her. Meanwhile Clifford novel is published and receives a bad review. The review says that his views are old fashioned and conceited.

When her sister Hilda (Faye Marsay) visits, she notices Connie's exhaustion and hires Mrs. Bolton (Joely Richardson) to be Clifford's caretaker. Mrs. Bolton used to take care of Clifford when he was young. Hilda overrules Clifford's objections and even takes Connie to see a doctor. One afternoon after being sent to check on some pheasant chicks at the nearby cottage, Connie meets Oliver Mellors (Jack O'Connell), the reserved lower-class gamekeeper who also returned from the war to find his wife Bertha had left him. They are not properly divorced yet and Bertha lives with another man in another nearby village.

Connie continues to visit Oliver's work cottage and uses the cottage for some private time, where she reads her books. Clifford wants to keep the mines going, but Connie wants to help the miners move on to a better life. Connie goes back to the cottage. There is an instant connection between Connie & Oliver, which soon turns into passionate sex. Using the chicks and long walks as her excuse, Connie visits the cottage more and more. Taken back by Oliver's surprising tenderness, the two begin a fervent love affair. They have naked sex all over the woods surrounding the estate.

One day Mrs. Bolton sees Oliver in the estate grounds, while Connie was out on one of her walks. She suspects something is going on. Meanwhile the working conditions in the mines get tougher after Clifford took over. Connie tells Mrs. Bolton that Clifford is making good recovery and a heir is not out of the question. Mrs. Bolton spreads the rumor in the villages.

Noticing signs of early pregnancy, Connie suggests to Clifford the idea of travelling to Venice with Hilda in order to have the supposed affair, while the rumor that they are actively trying to conceive spreads through town. Oliver is furious, believing Connie used him to have a child, but she tells him she only wants him. Connie sees Clifford as an aristocrat, who believes that he was born to rule, and the miners were born to serve and to make money for him. Connie is disgusted with this attitude. She runs to Oliver and gets stuck in the rain. Clifford sends Mrs. Bolton to look for Connie, who finds her and Oliver having sex in the woods. Hilda comes to collect Connie for the trip and is told about Oliver. She is disappointed but leaves to let Connie spend the night with him. Oliver's wife's new partner Ned comes by the cottage, seeking part of his war pension as they are not yet divorced, and finds evidence of Connie.

Ned spreads rumors about Oliver and Connie. When Clifford hears, he sacks Oliver just as Connie returns from Venice. The pair promise to reunite when they can, and she returns to the manor to confront Clifford, explaining his lack of affection drove her away. Connie reveals she is in love with Oliver and is pregnant with his child; Clifford declares he will never give her a divorce. As Connie leaves London to return to Venice, Mrs. Bolton promises to put the word out that she is looking for Oliver. Mrs. Bolton tells the entire village that Connie left her wealth, title and position, for her love of Oliver. This is a love story.

After some months, Connie tires of its smallness and returns to England. News has spread by word of mouth that a Lady gave up her title and wealth for a gamekeeper because she loves him. A letter arrives to Connie from Oliver, who has since found another house and a well-paid job, calling for her to join him in Scotland. She drives nearly 800km to find him and share a simple life in the countryside.