Adapted from the popular novels by John Galsworthy and spanning the Victorian Era through the 1920s, - plunge into the passions and intrigues of a wealthy, sprawling British family. Starring Damian Lewis] as Soames Forsyte, an English solicitor from a well-to-do British clan who marries a beautiful, elite woman named Irene (Gina McKee), but grows frustrated by his inability to possess her; episodes then follow the family's exploits over the ensuing two decades.