Set in eighteenth century England, based on a true story, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is the illegitimate, biracial daughter of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) and a black woman with whom he slept with while serving overseas. Lindsay brings her to his uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) who along with his wife Lady Mansfield (Emily Watson) are already raising Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), another niece the same age as Dido. Though Lady Mansfield fears scandal having a dark-skinned child as part of the home, Dido's father reminds them that his daughter does have the right to live there because of her lineage, and Lord Mansfield, a Lord Chief Justice of Britain, agrees. Belle and Elizabeth quickly become best friends, and when they come of age, each begins courting suitors. Elizabeth is pursued by James Ashford (Tom Felton), a smarmy and racist manipulator who wants to marry her in order to please his equally conniving mother, Lady Ashford (Miranda Richardson), by increasing his own family's wealth and standing, while Dido proves to be alluring to James' brother Oliver (James Norton). However, Dido's deepest affections are for John Davinier (Sam Reid), an idealistic young lawyer who is trying to sway Lord Mansfield on a crucial case before the high court that will have profound implications for Britain's slave trade.
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