Young and beautiful Lady Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands) lives a life of comfort on the lavish estate owned by her much older husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley (Hippolyte Girardot), who has been confined to a wheelchair ever since he was gravely injured in World War I. Increasingly bored with her comfortable but unromantic marriage, she falls into a passionate, emotional but scandalizing love affair with the rugged estate gardener, Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo'ch).