Bright and passionate, Eleanor links feminism and socialism. Partaking in workers' battles, she fights for women's rights and against child labor. Meeting Edward Aveling in 1883, her life is overtaken by a tragic love affair

Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx's youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers' battles and fights for women's rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.

In her public persona, Eleanor "Tussy" Marx (Garai) was a translator, actress, a children's rights activist, a feminist and a persuasive labour organiser, a tireless powerhouse determined to carry on her father, Karl Marx's (Gröning) work. In her private life, however, she was vulnerable and her attraction to the self-indulgent and self-important Edward Aveling (Kennedy) led her into misery and ultimately proved fatal.