Set against the extravagant backdrop of Britain's roaring '20s, The Laureate tells the story of young British War Poet Robert Graves, that is married with 4 children when he fulfills and also comes to be passionately entailed with Laura Riding, a writer from America. Opposing the conventions of polite society, Riding moves in with Graves and his wife living as a menage a tois. Then with the arrival of strappingly good-looking Irish poet Geoffrey Phibbs, the plan becomes a menage a quatre. However soon stress and competitions come to be so stuffed that Tomb is a suspect for attempted murder.