It is January 1880. Dundee is mourning the collapse of the new Tay Railway Bridge and the many lives lost, including that of Sarah, wife of Andrew Mason, jute mill owner and reluctant director of the failed bridge project. Andrew is also mourning the loss of his illicit love, Beth Grant, who turns away from him in the aftermath of the tragedy. Depressed, he looks to changing his life by buying a mill in Calcutta, a growing source of Dundee's jute,...