Many Beautiful Things

The film tells the story of Lilias Trotter, a young artist from the British Victorian era who left her promising art career for a life of missionary work in the North African country of Algeria. By following what she believes to be her vocation, she sacrifices the opportunity of being the Apprenticeship of one of the most influential art critics of the Victorian Era, John Ruskin. The film chronicles the relationship and written correspondence between Lilias Trotter (voice of Michelle Dockery) and John Ruskin (voice of John Rhys-Davies), who spends much of his life trying to convince Lilias to come back to her home in England and continue her career in art.