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From the 1920s through the 1960s, friendship, adultery, ambition and failure play out against the backdrop of London's social, political and artistic life.

From the 1920s through the 1960s, friendship, adultery, ambition and failure play out against the backdrop of London's social, political and artistic life.
Nicholas is an author; Winderpool is a Labor MP and married to Pam, who stops at nothing to humiliate her husband.
Nicholas is posted to Divisional Headquarters under the command of Widmerpool; Peter Templer has an affair with Pamela Flitton.
Widmerpool's engagement is called off; Nicholas runs into Charles Stringham, who is struggling to overcome alcoholism.
Nicholas hears that his former schoolmate works with his mistress's husband.