On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a grand party that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are in the past, and she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth; her romance with Peter Walsh, now recently returned from India; and the friends of her youth. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock. As the day draws to its end, his world and Clarissa`s collide in unexpected ways. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mrs. Dalloway is the central feature in the hugely successful film The Hours starring Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf. The feature film The Hours is three linked stories, each of which takes place in one day in the life of a particular woman: a modern-day Clarissa Dalloway played by Meryl Streep, a wife and mother in Los Angeles just after World War II played by Julianne Moore, and Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) the day she started writing Mrs. Dalloway.