The Forsyte Saga

- Season 1

(2002)

Emotionally aloof Soames Forsyte, a well-to-do solicitor becomes enamored at first sight of Irene Heron, but she turns down his marriage proposal,

Irene (Gina McKee) consents to marry Soames (Damian Lewis) with the proviso that he will make her happy. When it is apparent that she is not, he hires Bisonney (Ioan Gruffudd) to design them a unique country house.

Realiazing he has lost Irene (Gina McKee), a vengeful Soames (Damian Lewis) sets out to ruin Bosinney's (Ioan Gruffudd) architectural career by charging him with mismanagement.

Soames forces himself on wife Irene just before his lawsuit with Bossiney comes to court with tragic consequences.

Many years have passed since Irene (Gina McKee) left him and Soames (Damian Lewis) has now decided that he wants a divorce. He's met an attractive young woman, Annette Lamotte (Beatriz Batarde), who with her mother (Kika Markham) runs a restaurant in Soho. He calls on Young Jolyon Rupert Graves), who is trustee of the legacy his father (Corin Redgrave) left her, to ask if she could provide him with grounds for divorce. She assures Jolyon that there has been no one in her life, a message he relays to Soames, who refuses to believe it. He even visits Irene, but unable ...

Soames sends Jolyon to Irene in order to secure a divorce so he can remarry a French girl,, but the cousins have a falling out,t and it ends badly,