An all-star cast comes together to bring to life some of Dickens’s most famous creations. There is the icily beautiful Lady Dedlock (Gillian Anderson), who faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn, her husband’s sinister lawyer, catches wind of it. Then there’s Esther, whose own background, shrouded in mystery, begins to come to light after the murder of a strange man. Adopted by the kindly John Jarndyce, Esther acts as chaperone to wards Ada and Richard. But will the passionate young love of Ada and Richard survive Richard’s obsession with Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an obscure legal case which seems to have no resolution in sight and threatens to destroy all who become entangled in it?