Edith Wharton's final novel, the story of four beautiful young aristocrats who journey from America to England in search of love and adventure, comes alive in this BBC production, re-mastered for DVD and presented unedited for the first time.

Deemed nouveau riche and shunned by elitist New York society, sisters Nan and Virginia St. George, along with their friend Lizzy Elmsworth and their English governess Laura Testvallet, try their luck in London. With the help of their glamorous, newly married friend, Conchita Closson (Academy Award© winner Mira Sorvino), the girls quickly become the talk of the town. With their vivacious ways and large dowries, the girls have no lack of suitors, but they soon learn love and marriage do not necessarily mix.

As the New and Old Worlds clash, he girls find that their passionate desire for romance is not satisfied by their marriages, which are riddled with Victorian hypocrisy and the grim realities of responsibility, repression and repetitiveness.