Lord Marchmain, fatally ill, returns to England and prepares to die at Brideshead. Charles and Julia plan to marry and hope Brideshead will be theirs – but Julia’s faith and sense of mortal sin are troubling her.
Charles and Julia meet on a transatlantic liner and begin an affair. Rex Mottram and Charles’s wife conspire against them.
Two vagabonds anticipate the arrival of a man called Godot, but instead encounter an arrogant individual accompanied by his hunched servant.