The Invisible Woman

In 1857, forty-five-year-old Charles Dickens notices eighteen-year-old actress Ellen "Nelly" Ternan while she is performing at London's Haymarket Theatre. He later casts her, along with her mother and sister Maria, in a performance of Wilkie Collins's The Frozen Deep at Dickens's Free Trade Hall in Manchester. At a party following the performance, Dickens and Nelly share a moment alone.