Perpetually is the story of Clarissa Quentin who is finding graduate life a bore in her family's Cotswolds Manor until she embarks on a summer romance with old classmate and aspiring artist, Freddie Harrington who questions her snobbery and most of all listens to her. Follow Clarissa's career to London where she meets wealthy bachelor Thomas Thorecroft who brings her back to High Society as she questions the life they each desire.