The classic English novel of love and hate on the bleak English Moors. Eustacia Vye is a young maid, filled with longing for the city of Paris, passionate love, and the escape it may bring from her Wessex home. When she hears about a young man just returned home from Paris for good after long years in the Diamond business, she sets her heart on marrying him, believing him to be her chance to leave rural life behind. But their dreams are entirely different...