The Jewel in the Crown: Crossing the River

The first episode of one of the greatest British TV series of all time, an award-winning, epic story with a fantastic cast, spanning the years as the sun slowly set on the Empire in India. In 1942, a lonely young woman arrives in India and strikes up a friendship with an English-educated Indian. This incurs the wrath of the locals and a vindictive police superintendent, and when love blossoms events soon spiral out of control.