On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
In Victorian London, a surgeon named Frederick Treves pays to examine John Merrick, a severely deformed man displayed in a traveling freak show. Treves assumes Merrick cannot speak or think. He is wrong. As the two men spend more time together, a friendship develops, and Merrick is revealed as a person of profound intelligence, sensitivity, and dignity. A biographical drama about what it means to see another human being clearly. The film is shot in black and white by David Lynch.
