The Mayor of Casterbridge

Whilst travelling with his family in search of work, in a fit of drunken madness farm-worker Michael Henchard (Ciaran Hinds) manages to auction off both his wife Susan (Juliet Aubrey) and baby daughter. Eighteen years later, Henchard is set to become mayor of Casterbridge. But when his wife and her daughter (Jodhi May) return, they set a disastrous chain of events in motion.