Disraeli, darkly handsome, 28, married, successful novelist, ambitious to succeed in politics, meets and falls in love with another woman: Lady Henrietta Sykes, mother of 4 young children. Her husband, Sir Francis, is indifferent to his wife's bodily charms and wit; indifferent also to her billowing romance with Disraeli, while all of the rest of London watches with bated breath...
