At the age of 23, Constance Reid marries Clifford Chatterley, an irresistible Cambridge graduate, lieutenant, and mine owner. Their honeymoon is brief. After being drafted into WWI, Clifford returns a broken man, condemned to spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair. The couple moves to the dull, rural Wragby, where Constance finds herself islolated, bored, and nostalgic for the livelier days before her marriage. It is her taciturn gamekeeper, Parkin, who awakens Lady Chatterley’s desire, one that she had never felt before. Parkin is at first hesitant to trust his mistress, bewildered as to why she would be interested a simple man such as himself.

- A Statement by Director Pascale Ferran
“D.H. Lawrence wrote three versions of Lady Chatterley's Lover. The novel known by this title is the third version; the one Lawrence considered definitive.
(…)Then I learned that there were two previous versions and that the second had been published by Gallimard under the title Lady Chatterley et l'homme des bois [published in English as John Thomas and Lady Jane].
This version is simpler, more direct in dealing with its subject, less tortured. The book is more focused on the relationship between Constance and Parkin, the gamekeeper, and the two characters themselves are quite different. (..)
In Lady Chatterley et l'homme des bois, they don't discuss things, they experience them. Lastly, even more than in the final version, the story is literally overrun by vegetation. And the plant kingdom doesn't come in simply as a metaphor for the life force that brings the two protagonists together, but accompanies them constantly during their transformation. To me, that's the most beautiful thing about Lady Chatterley et l'homme des bois: the story of a love that is one with the material experience of transformation. “