Nothing is quite as it seems. Young orphan Pip wants no more from life than to one day join his brother-in-law at the blacksmith's forge. Until, that is, fate intervenes-twice. First, asn escaped convict ambushes Pip in the marshes; and, not long after, a wealthy, reclusive neighbor at the macabre Satis House-Miss Havisham-seeks Pip out as a playmate for her adopted daughter, Estella. Pip falls almost instantly in love with Estella, and realizes that he needs to be more than a simple blacksmith's apprentice if he ever hopes to win her. But Miss Havisham-a bride-to-be who was jilted at the altar years ago and still wears her wedding dress amidst the fosilized ruins of her wedding feast-has gone to great lengths to ensure that Estella will never so much as risk heartbreak, raising her more as a tool for vengeance than a child. But when Pip is mysteriously plucked from obscurity and lured to London by an anonymous benefactor hoping to make a gentleman out of him, he suddenlly has unlimited wealth at this disposal-and true love in his future. Or so he thinks.