A dramatization of the time that Van Gogh spent in Brixton in the 1870s—a period before he became a painter and one which changed him completely. Vincent develops a rapport with a widow twice his age, which blossoms into a full-blown love affair, only to be cruelly curtailed by the arrival of his fiercely puritan young sister. From the author of Cressida, Mrs. Klein and the recent adaptation of His Dark Materials.