Arctic Summer

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who's embarking on a journey of discovery. As he stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another 12 years, and a second time spent in India, before "A Passage to India," E.M. Forster's great work of literature, is published.