The Forsyte family is shown in Victorian respectability as they gather to meet June's fiance, architect Philip Bosinney. Some years before her father Jolyon has scandalised the family by making her nanny his mistress. Jolyon's cousin Soames, an up-and-coming solicitor, has recently married beautiful Irene and retains Bosinney to build a new home, "Robin Hill". Moving ahead to the next generation in the 1920s, Soames' daughter Fleur (by the woman he married after Irene left him) is madly in love with Jon, the son of Jolyon and his third wife Irene. Will Fleur find happiness as the wife of a well-connected publisher?
—Dale O'Connor <daleoc@interaccess.com>