Stifled by a sexless marriage and exhausted by caring for her husband, who is paralysed from the waist down, Lady Constance Chatterley takes to walking in the grounds of the family estate where she meets Oliver Mellors, the handsome gamekeeper.

Lady Chatterley and Mellors make love in the woods. Clifford questions her about rumours that she's pregnant, obviously Clifford would not care to know that Mellors was father. Connie forces herself to urge Clifford to make love.

Connie admits that she would rather stay with Mellors in the cottage forever than return to her husband. Before she spends the summer with her father and sister in Mandalay, she spends one more night with Mellors and tells him that she is pregnant.

Final part of the adaptation of D H Lawrence infamous novel. While Connie relaxes at the seaside, dramatic developments take place at home.