In a Land of Plenty

The BBC period drama In a Land of Plenty spans forty years of British history as it follows the wealthy Freeman family from the 1950s to the 1990s. They're despotic pa Robert Pugh and his wife, Helen McCrory, a talented lady worn down by hubby's cruelty and the hard reality of being a woman in a backward society. Helen hides her heart in poetry and booze while her four children grow up under dad's thumb; one by one, cruel fate befalls them all. Can they make it into adulthood in one piece?