A rather Kitchen Sink version of Sylvia Plath's marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes - they met at Cambridge University and fell in love at first sight. They marry and Plath gives birth to two children but Ted cannot stop his philandering ways. Sylvia's writing gets more and more morbid and she is steeped in despair, cracks up and gasses herself while her children play near by. The film focuses solely on the Ted/Sylvia marriage, implying that Ted was the cause of Sylvia's eventual suicide. While there is this element, the film completely ignores Sylvia's past history. She was prone to terrible depression before she ever met Ted - depression that was so severe she made a serious attempt on her life when she was an undergraduate (this would later form the basis for her book The Bell Jar). She never recovered from this depression. The film never really probes her stunning writing skills or gives her credit for them. It is instead, a bit of a potboiler that gives slushy overtones to Plath's life. A glimpse into her background may have helped to explain her crack up rather than focusing on domestic drudgery.