As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
Agnes Shakespeare – the wife of the world's most famous writer – struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet.
Stanley Atwell, the presumed dead son and heir to Lord Atwell's title and fortune, unexpectedly returns to the family estate having escaped a decade of mysterious captivity. Atwell's shocking reappearance causes chaos as he finds his sister Beatrice fighting to claim his inheritance, whilst close friend Pamela manipulates his puzzling return, and a dark family secret, in a bid to seize control of the Atwell fortune.
