Samuel Pepys was a high ranking and brilliant Admiralty official, but in private he was a cheat, a philanderer and an adulterer. In 1679 Pepys was put on trial for embezzling Navy funds. His diaries can clear him but they will also expose him for what he is, destroying him as a public figure in society. Will Pepys exonerate yet damn himself by revealing the contents of his diaries or will he hang?
England, mid-1600s. Samuel Pepys, secretary of the Navy Board, is accused of treachery and corruption. Things look grim: his nemesis, Lord Shaftesbury, is the judge and has bribed the jury. Pepys remembers the events that lead to this point, his marriage, his lovers, his dealings while on the Navy Board. All of these are captured in his diary.—grantss
