讲述了布卢姆茨伯里派(Bloomsbury Group)40多年间的故事。其成员如Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Edward Morgan Forster等、他们的复杂关系、激荡的内心世界、对自由和理想的不舍追求，以及这些对他们的作品的影响，都会在剧中被精彩呈现。

　　Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Public Enemies) stars in BBC Two's powerful factual drama as Peter Wildeblood, a thoughtful and private gay journalist whose lover Eddie McNally (played by newcomer to television, Richard Gadd), under pressure from the authorities, turned Queen's evidence against him in one of the most explosive court cases of the 1950s - the infamous Montagu Trial.
　　More than ten years before the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in 1967, Peter Wildeblood, and his friends Lord Montagu (Mark Edel-Hunt) and Michael Pitt-Rivers, were found guilty of homosexual offences and jailed.
　　With his career in tatters and his private life painfully exposed, Wildeblood began his sentence a broken man, but he emerged from Wormwood Scrubs a year later determined to do all he could to change the way these draconian laws against homosexuality impacted on the lives of men like him.
　　Daniel says: 「I'm incredibly proud to be part of a drama that tells such an important real-life story. Peter Wildeblood is a fascinating, complex, yet flawed character from a time when being a gay man in Britain was incredibly difficult - I can't wait to bring his tale to life for the BBC Two audience.」
　　Patrick Holland, Channel Editor, BBC Two, said: 「50 years ago, it was a crime to be a gay man in the UK. Against The Law is a stunning piece that melds drama and documentary testimony to tell the story of one man, and his wider generation, as they struggled to make society accept their sexuality as non-criminal. It is brilliant to have a film that brings the authorship of Brian Fillis, the vision of director Fergus O'Brien, and the outstanding talent of Daniel Mays and cast to this important subject」
　　The drama also features Mark Gatiss (Taboo, Sherlock) as Wildeblood's prison psychiatrist, Doctor Landers and Charlie Creed-Miles (Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders) as Superintendent Jones.
　　Woven through this powerful drama is real-life testimony from a chorus of men who lived through those dark days, when homosexuals were routinely imprisoned or forced to undergo chemical aversion therapy in an attempt to cure them of their "condition". There is also testimony from a retired police officer whose job it was to enforce these laws, and a former psychiatric nurse who administered the so-called cures. All of these accounts serve to amplify the themes of the drama and help to immerse us in the reality of a dark chapter in our recent past, a past still within the reach of living memory.

　　故事发生在禁酒令执行期间，私酒买卖成为了黑帮分子们赚钱谋利的最佳手段。达利（大卫·帕特里克·凯利 David Patrick Kelly 饰）和史托兹（尼德·艾森伯格 Ned Eisenberg 饰）分别是爱尔兰黑手党和意大利黑手党的首脑，两个帮派因为争夺地盘的问题而闹得剑拔弩张。
　　某日，镇上来了一位神秘的流浪抢手，自称史密斯（布鲁斯·威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰），经验丰富的他很快就看出了盘旋在小镇上空一触即发的紧张气氛，喜欢铤而走险的史密斯决定在此大捞一笔。史密斯游走于达利和史托兹之间，很快就赚得盆满钵满，然而，没过多久，他就发现，自己陷入了危机之中，成为了两大黑手党都想要除掉的对象。

　　上世纪40年代初期，德国攻占英国前夕，瑞士的里克特男爵向英国大使凯利建议采取和平态度，因为抵抗纳粹无异于以卵击石，而凯利却拒绝接受他的建议，并宣称英国将抗战到底。英国当时的处境极其险恶，陆军在刚刚结束的法兰西战役中损失惨重，英国本土仅剩下780门火炮、160门反坦克炮和200辆坦克。空军也在战役中受到重创，损失了约1000架飞机，牺牲了435名富有经验的飞行员。英国皇家空军上将道丁已经察觉到一场大战迫在眉睫，他需要更多的飞机和飞行员。不久之后，丘吉尔首相宣布大不列颠之战正式开战。

　　6岁的奥古斯丁（约瑟夫·克罗斯 Joseph Cross 饰）是一个早熟的孩子，在他充满了童稚的目光里，原本应该幸福美满的家庭早已分崩离析。身为奥古斯丁的母亲，迪尔丽德（安妮特·贝宁 Annette Bening 饰）并没有将儿子的需求放在第一位，在她的眼中，自己诗人的身份和在诗坛的地位是最重要的，可实际上，甚至没有人听闻过“诗人”迪尔丽德的大名。自己的妻子整天神神叨叨，无计可施的诺曼（亚历克·鲍德温 Alec Baldwin 饰）选择了无视，失意的他只能向酒精寻求安慰。
　　精神医生芬奇（布莱恩·考克斯 Brian Cox 饰）的到来将这个家的问题推向了新的层面，本来意在修复家庭裂痕的他居然成为了导致离婚的罪魁祸首。更令奥古斯丁感到头痛的是，母亲竟然将自己托付给了这个疯疯癫癫的蒙古大夫。

　　爱丽丝（艾伦·波斯蒂恩 Ellen Burstyn 饰）是一名全职太太，多年在家相夫教子，过着平静幸福的生活，然而，某日，她的丈夫在一场意外中去世了，带着十一岁的儿子汤米（阿尔弗雷德·卢特三世 Alfred Lutter III 饰），这对母子不得不步入冷酷的社会，开始为两人的未来打拼。
　　年轻的时候，爱丽丝热爱唱歌，如今，她带着汤米来到了一座小城定居，在酒吧卖唱。某日，爱丽丝遇见了名为本（哈威·凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）的男人，强壮自信的本唤醒了爱丽丝内心压抑已久的感情，就在她以为幸福的生活将要来临之时，却发现自己不过是坠入了另一个噩梦之中，面对接连而来的挫折，爱丽丝还能够坚强的生活下去吗？