Today is the day! Clarissa Dalloway is going to throw her party, and the who’s who of London society will be there. It’s now been five years since the end of World War One, and Clarissa’s party will be a dazzling celebration of life after so much grief and death. But a nagging feeling is haunting Clarissa. Is throwing all these parties worthwhile? Has Clarissa become a shallow, ageing and irrelevant woman? A surprise visit from her old boyfriend may hold the answer.