After Miss Julie, is set in the kitchen of a large country house outside London on the night of 26 July 1945; and then the morning after, shortly following Labour's famous post-war "landslide" election victory. It is about the social and political divide between the dysfunctional daughter of a Labour peer, Julie, and her father's chauffeur, John. She has a passionate yet destructive fling with him. Although his fiancee, the cook Christine, is clear about her own place in society, John has yet to realise this. He gives as good as he gets by playing psychological mind games with Miss Julie, even though he is a servant of the household.