A comedy by James Goldman. The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor long exiled to a faraway castle, is "invited" to join Henry and their three sons for a family reunion. It's a whole weekend of plotting, betrayal, political compromises, stubbornness, spurned lovers, and the questionable bonds of family.