After eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille, the devoted Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter, the gentle Lucie, in England.

There she captures the hearts of two very different men: Charles Darney, a banished French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a well-known English lawyer, both of whom must compete for her love.

With a twisting plot of revenge, corruption and love played out under the shadow of the guillotine, this is one of Dickens' most exciting stories.