The Laureate

 

British War Poet Robert Graves was married with four children when he met Laura Riding, a writer from America studying at Oxford University.


With Nancy Nicholson, Graves’ first wife, the couple lived as a ménage a trios, which, with the arrival of Geoffrey Phibbs, became a ménage a quatre.


Tensions and rivalries became so fraught that Graves becomes a suspect for attempted murder.


Tired of the Victorian morals and British social structure that led to his war trauma, as well as the inhibitions imposed on his writing, Graves leaves England for good and settles with Riding on the Spanish island of Mallorca.


Before he leaves England, Graves publishes his famous war memoirs “GOODBYE TO ALL THAT”, as well as his first successful volume of poems containing some of the finest love poetry of the 20th Century.


Despite shell shock and being shackled by those around him, Robert transforms himself into “A Laureate.”

 

A married couple on the brink of disillusion allows a stranger to live with them in their idyllic cottage.


Will this stranger push their fragile state over the edge?