After receiving sex education on the beach, the young Maurice Hall (Orlando Wells) declared that he would not get married. In 1909, Hall (James Wilby), a sophomore at Cambridge, met Clive Durham (Hugh Grant), a junior. In 1910, their relationship progressed by leaps and bounds, and Hall was expelled from the college by Dean Cornwallis (Barry Foster). In 1911, seeing his friend Viscount Risley (Mark Tandy) being sentenced, Durham suffered tremendous mental pressure. In 1912, after a month and a half of careful consideration, Durham ended his relationship with Hall. In 1913, Durham invited Hall to attend his wedding as a best man, but he did not expect that his gamekeeper Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves) would fall in love with Hall...