For a long time Lesley Manville has shown why she s not only one of our best actresses working today, but also one of our most diverse. Case in point: just in the last few years she has played a mad scientist, a pixie-fairy, a bristly manager of an esteemed fashion house, a woman struggling with breast cancer, and a venomous backwoods matriarch. Now you can add a sweet and sprightly cleaning lady determined to get her very own Christian Dior evening gown.
A hard-working London housecleaner, Mrs. Harris has one burning ambition, and it’s a doozy: She wants, above all else, to own a gown by Christian Dior.