Yorkshire, 1812. The Industrial Revolution is sweeping the country
In the town of Huddersfield, the lives of those involved with the mill are as intricately interwoven as the strands of wool they manufacture. There is the rich mill-owner Josiah Denshaw; the poor mill-worker Jess Drake, and the arch-manipulator Mellors. The three men and their families become involved in a floodtide of action that leads, with horrible inevitability, to bloodshed...