Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Vanessa Redgrave
as Penelope Keeling
Maximilian Schell
as Lawrence Sterne
Charles Edwards
as Noel Keeling
Prunella Scales
as Dolly Keeling
Victoria Smurfit
as Olivia Keeling
Victoria Hamilton
as Nancy Chamberlaine
Sebastian Koch
as Cosmo König
Stephanie Stumph
as Antonia König
Richard Hope
as George Chamberlaine
Lucas Gregorowicz
as Danus Muirfield
Maisie Dimbleby
as Young Penelope
Toby Fisher
as Ambrose Keeling