Two men and one love story. Branded a social outcast and shunned by the Victorian society, Lord Richard Archerton leads a solitary life at his large estate, just outside Two Bridges village in the heart of Devon. No one could be more unlike him than Valentine, a prisoner sentenced to the gallows and who just made his lucky escape. He is running blindly through the mist and marshes of Dartmoor, with his pursuers not far behind.