Tipping the Velvet (2002)

Episode Overview

Feeling isolated and heartbroken from her betrayal, Nan is unable to face her family in Whitstable and resorts to living on the streets. Disguising herself as a male impersonator, she carves out a place for herself in the dark corners of the Victorian sexual underworld. There, she becomes entangled with a wealthy widow from a secretive Sapphic society who tempts her with a life of passion, thrill, and opulence, but this alluring offer comes with dangerous consequences.