Henry Cyril Paget, inherits a vast fortune. The film depicts his extravagant lifestyle, eccentric conduct, and gradual financial ruin, culminating in his impoverished death in France at 29, having squandered his immense wealth.
Based upon a true story of Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey: one of the richest men in Britain; an obscure theatrical dandy; a dreamer with no limits who inherited the equivalent of £11m a year and died penniless; lost, ill and forgotten at the age of twenty-nine in the south of France. A tale of the ultimate poor-little-rich-boy, a victim of excess and neglect - who spent more than he was given, gave more than he took but invited the world to look at him for what he truly was...a Twentieth Century Boy.