Pierre and Agnes are in love, but Pierre is engaged to someone else approved by his snobbish mother and the industrialist and tyrannical family patriarch, Julius Hardelot. Their love provokes a family feud which cascades down the generations. Even when war is imminent and Pierre is called up, the old man is unforgiving. Taunt, evocative and beautifully paced, All our worldly goods points up with heartbreaking, razor-sharp clarity how history repeats itself, tragically, shockingly……………….
