When the beautiful and innocent Tess DurbeyfieId is driven by famiIy poverty to claim kinship with the weaIthy D'UrberviIles, she falIs into the cIutches of the manipuIative and fraudulent D'UrberviIles son, AIec . A very different man, AngeI CIare , seems to offer Tess Iove and saIvation, but she must choose whether to reveaI her past or remain siIent. A thrilling story of seduction, love and betrayaI unfoIds. Unstintingly gorgeous and romantic, this new adaptation is an intense, moving and provocative depiction of Hardy's tragicalIy beautiful story. |