The History of Mr Polly tells the bitter sweet story of an ordinary man with a big heart and big dreams who finally risks everything for a chance at happiness.
Set in Kent in 1910, Alfred Polly is the owner of a bankrupt Gentleman's Outfitters, trapped in a joyless marriage to wife Miriam . Polly has towed the conventional line, married a woman he doesn't love and gone into a business he neither likes nor understands. Somehow life has passed him by and he's desperate for a way out.