London, 1886. Wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte is a man of property, and his beautiful wife Irene is his most prized possession. When he commissions an architect to build a house for her, the cracks in their marriage begin to show until a shocking incident tears the Forsyte family apart. Years later, Soames' daughter, Fleur, is haunted by the family secret as history begins to repeat itself.John Galsworthy's classic story The Forsyte Saga is newly dramatized in two parts by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan, bringing the unheard female voices to the fore for the first time. Spanning forty years from the last gasp of the Victorian age to the beginning of the roaring 1920s, this is an epic tale of sex, money and power.