"A turgid portrait of manners and times" NDR. 12th century: Against the will of the Church, Eleanor of Aquitaine obtains the annulment of her marriage to Louis VII, King of France. She shares a great love with her second husband, Henry, eleven years her junior, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou. But the man who would later become King Henry II of England keeps a mistress. "A great love story against a historical backdrop and the psychogram of an unusually strong woman for her time." NDR