On a warm spring day in 1924, housemaid and foundling Jane Fairchild finds herself alone on Mothers Day. Her employers, Mr and Mrs Niven, are out and she has the rare chance to spend an afternoon of abandon with her secret lover, Paul, the boy from the manor house nearby. Paul is Janes long-term love despite the fact that he's engaged to be married to another woman, a childhood friend and daughter of his parent's friends. But events that neither can foresee will change the course of Jane's life forever.
From the producers of Carol and Their Finest comes a tale of forbidden love based on the novel by Graham Swift, directed by Palme d'Or nominee Eva Husson, and penned by the BAFTA-nominated writer of Normal People, Alice Birch. Mothering Sunday features an all-star cast led by Odessa Young, Sop Drs, and The Crowns Josh O'Connor, with Academy Award, Primetime Emmy, and BAFTA-winner Glenda Jackson; Academy Award and BAFTA-winner Olivia Colman; and Academy Award and BAFTA-winner Colin Firth completing an exciting ensemble.
