In the uneasy years before the French Revolution, London and Paris sit on opposite shores of a gathering storm. After eighteen long years wrongly imprisoned in the Bastille, the broken Dr. Manette is quietly released and brought to England by his devoted daughter, Lucie, whose love slowly draws him back from the ruin of his lost years. But as Lucie builds a new life and hearts become entangled around her, across the channel the rage of an oppressed people swells toward revolution. Dickens's stirring 1859 epic of love and sacrifice sets a handful of fragile lives in the path of history.