The wilds of Egdon Heath seems like a prison to Eustacia Vye, cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage. When Clym Yeobright returns from the glittering lights of Paris, he seems to offer everything she dreams of: passion, excitement, and the opportunity to escape. However, Clym's ambitions are quite different from hers, and marriage only increases Eustacia's destructive restlessness...