The Standard of Living

John Maynard Keynes moves between the Treasury and the Bloomsbury set, an economist trying to rebuild Britain from the ruins of the First World War and a man whose private life is as unconventional as his ideas. His lovers have included the painter Duncan Grant, and now he falls for Lydia Lopokova, a dazzling Russian ballerina. As the markets crash around them, Keynes faces a question no equation can solve: what makes a life worth living?