Contemporary artist Gillian Wearing celebrates the legacy of Victorian novelist George Eliot. Just as Eliot’s novel Middlemarch explored the lives of ordinary men and women, this experimental film is made up of a diverse cast of people from different backgrounds.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Gillian WearingSelf | Self |
 Sheila AtimNarrator | Narrator |
 Jason IsaacsNarrator | Narrator |
 Olivia HespeFuneral Mourner and Reader | Funeral Mourner and Reader |
| FFleur WillisReader-Narrator | Reader-Narrator |