Constance (Connie) married Clifford Chatterley, a member of a prestigious noble family. However, her life with her husband, who was paralyzed from the waist down in the war, was limited to "intellectual conversations" within their vast estate.
As her spirit withered by the harshness of the industrial area shrouded in coal smoke, she encounters Oliver Mellors, a taciturn gamekeeper (guardian of the forest), in the private woods deep within the estate.
The moment she touches the warmth of his hand—a man who rejects civilization and lives in harmony with the earth—the wild blood dormant within Connie begins to stir. What kind of "true connection" will the two find, transcending the cages of class, morality, and the times?