Set in Thomas Hardy’s beloved Wessex, TESS tells the devastating story of Tess Durbeyfield, daughter of a poor villager who fatefully discovers they may be related to the ancient aristocratic d’Urberville family.

 

As Tess is sent to seek respectability with her new-found relatives, she embarks on an emotional and dramatic journey that will lead her to love, loss and ultimate tragedy. Struggling with the social mores of the rural Victorian world she inhabits, and the hypocrisy that plagues her sex, she forges a desperate path to pursue her own destiny against the backdrop of a society determined to doom her.