A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. When aristocrat Clifford returns from the war, paralysed from the waist down, his wife Connie Chatterley becomes isolated and despairs of the post-war years, yearning for human connection among the emotionally dead intellectuals that surround her. When the aloof, but noble, Oliver Mellors returns to the estate as gamekeeper, Connie begins an affair, feeling that she has connected in a sensual, primordial way for the first time. Hugely controversial at the time of its publication, Lawrence's exploration of class differences and love and his celebration of sexuality resonates against his view of the repressed modern condition.