Two on a Tower

In the English countryside of the nineteenth century, Lady Constantine lives alone on her estate while her husband hunts lions in Africa. She has promised him to see almost no one, and she is bored. At the top of an old tower she finds Swithin St Cleeve, a young man of twenty raised by his grandmother, who watches the sky and dreams of becoming an astronomer. She helps him with his research, and love grows between them, troubled by the difference in age and rank. Thomas Hardy sets this intimate story beneath the vastness of the starry sky.