This film is a family drama about writer Kenneth Grahame. He penned "The Wind In The Willows". It also describes his life with wife Elsie and young son Alastair. The great cast includes: James D'Arcy as Kenneth Grahame, Matthew McNulty as Courtauld Thomson, Tim McInnerny as Dr. Cyril Evans, Colm Meaney as John Fletcher Moulton, Phyllis Logan as Constance Smedley, Mark Williams as Walter Cunliffe, Brian Blessed as Frederick James Furnivall, Sally Phillips as Nanny, David Jason as Arthur Quiller-Couch, Bill Paterson as Middleton Campbell - Governor: Bank of England, Ian McNeice as Sir Algeron Methuen Marshall, Robert Powell as High Court Judge Watkins, Caroline Quentin as Marjorie Tuffty, Alexander Armstrong as Albert Crowe and John Thomson as Edward 'Atky' Atkinson.