- Winds of Transition' tells the story of Lady Constance Lytton. Everything on the screenplay that happened with the suffragettes is actual history. Like Downton Abbey, which critics have compared it to, it is all about the family.
- Set in the turmoil of 1909 England, when women's rights challenged the Edwardian morality that still gripped British society. 'Winds' tells the story of two sisters who could not be more different than Lady Constance and Emily Ashecroft. Emily is high-spirited and unconventional; her appearance quickly brings to mind the new emancipated woman. Constantly stifled by the rigid customs of the times, her inherent passion for life takes her to the forefront of the British suffrage movement. Our story opens at a suffragette rally where, once again, Emily had been arrested. Not surprisingly, Emily's suffrage activities are a constant source of conflict within the family. Set during the same period as Downton Abbey, we see class barriers break down amid social upheaval and turmoil. You see a family torn apart by passion, deception and forbidden love. Passion and forbidden love are the story of Sir Richard, Lady Constance's brother-in-law, and Emily's best friend, nurse Lyta. A 3 suffragette born on the continent of mixed race. Interracial relationships were unheard of, specially within the classes. Lady Constance's husband, Sir Sinclair, lies, deceits and does everything he can to break his own brother's relationship. Suddenly, after all these years of marriage, Lady Constance believes her husband to be a stranger. Lady Constance's growing involvement with the movement also conflicts with her manipulative husband, who believes that men are meant to lead and women to follow. Even when Lady Constance was arrested for her militant activities on behalf of the suffragette movement, she was released. After one of her arrest, Lady Constance gives the police a false name, Jane Warton. She then refuses to pay the fine and is sentenced to three months in prison. Lady Constance goes on a hunger-strike and is being brutally force fed.
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