In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.

A criminal gang of old timers attempt to pull off the largest burglary in English history at an underground safe deposit facility with an estimated value of £200 million.

The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century...

A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.