Connie's unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by mutual frustration and alienation. Paralyzed by wartime action, Clifford uses a wheelchair, while Connie's solitary, sterile existence is contained within the narrow parameters of the Chatterley ancestral home, Wragby. She seizes her chance at happiness and freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with the estate's gamekeeper, Mellors, discovering a world of sexual opportunity and pleasure she'd thought lost to her.