This is the story of wild passions and exciting adventures in the “era of change” that resonated in the two great cities of London and Paris during the Great French Revolution. The cell in the Bastille and the guillotine at that time were as real as sittings by the fireplace and lace umbrellas, and love and persistent hatred, touching devotion, self-sacrifice and vile betrayal made up different facets of the world of Dickens's characters.