Set before World War I, when homosexuality was outlawed in Britain, two Cambridge undergraduates become close friends, and then one day, one tells the other that he loves him. Repelled at first, Maurice (James Wilby), then embraces Clive’s declaration, wanting to demonstrate his feelings physically. Clive wants their love to remain platonic – a repressed aristocrat, more than anything, he fears exposure and disgrace. He soon follows convention and gets married. Maurice is devastated. But then he meets Scudder (Rupert Graves), the gamekeeper on Clive’s estate, and they fall into a passionate sexual affair.
 

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