Under andra världskriget återvänder kapten Charles Ryder till det magnifika engelska godset Brideshead, där han tillbringade mycket tid i sin ungdom.
En förlorad värld
paris, france, venice, italy, england, world war ii, fountain, artist, british empire, friendship, love, romance, religious conversion, gay interest, miniseries, in the closet, mistress, university, love affair, period drama, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, expatriate, domineering mother, labor strike, catholicism, husband wife estrangement, marital separation, catholic guilt, englishman abroad, oxford university, 1920s, 1940s, aristocracy, ancestral home, 1930s, alcoholic son, aristocrats, social scandal, society party, closeted homosexual, family friend, british painter, lgbt interest, general strike