The two women start seeing each other and slowly fall in
love, however their emerging relationship is complicated by Carol's divorce from husband Harge (Kyle Chandler) who is still in
love with her but is willing to use his wife's former
homosexual affair with best friend Abby (Sarah Paulson) to
gain fully custody of their mutual daughter in case he is unable to convince Carol to stay with him.
A pioneer of the British Pop Art movement in the early 1960s alongside Richard Hamilton, David Hockney
gained recognition for his semi-abstract paintings on the theme of
homosexual love before it was decriminalized in England in 1967.