In production as of 2026, Catching Girls tells the story of Assia Wevill, the German-born mistress of English poet Ted Hughes. This evocative biographical drama explores her complex life, beginning with her escape from Nazi Germany and her rise as a talented advertising copywriter in London’s elite literary circles. The film delves deeply into her passionate but turbulent affair with Hughes, tracing how she lived in the towering shadow of his late wife, Sylvia Plath. As public condemnation, intense isolation, and Hughes’s ongoing infidelities began to fracture her mental state, Wevill succumbed to a mirroring despair. The narrative reaches its devastating climax by chronicling the 1969 tragedy where, consumed by grief and feeling utterly erased, she took her own life and that of her four-year-old daughter, Shura.
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