Kate is enjoying a charmed existence in 19th Century England, married to a doctor, living in an elegant manor house, and raising her two children in the City of York. Her idyllic life is suddenly shattered when her husband is imprisoned on a charge of homicide. The drama escalates when he is convicted and sentenced to death. Will he find a way to escape the hangman's noose, or will she lose her love and forever be without the family knot?