绅士冉阿让（多米尼克·威斯特 Dominic West 饰）因为偷窃了一条面包而被判了20年的有期徒刑。出狱后，被困顿生活逼得走投无路的他被好心的主教收留，可是，未能经得住内心阴暗面考验的冉阿让却偷走了主教家的银烛台。被捕后，主教为了保护冉阿让，遂承认是自己主动赠与对方烛台，主教这一举动彻底的感化了冉阿让，令他决定洗心革面做个好人。　　时光匆匆流逝，曾经的囚犯如今已成为德高望重的镇长，可即便如此，嫉恶如仇的警长沙威（大卫·奥伊罗 David Oyelowo 饰）也一直没有放弃过对于冉阿让的追踪。为了弥补自己曾经的过错，冉阿让答应妓女芳汀（莉莉·科林斯 Lily Collins 饰），在她死后照顾她的女儿珂赛特（艾丽·巴姆博 Ellie Bamber 饰），而此时，沙威步步紧逼的脚步令冉阿让和珂赛特不得不踏上了隐姓埋名不断逃亡的旅途。

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia.

　　There's little wonder in the working-class lives of Bill, Eileen, and their three grown daughters. They're lonely Londoners. Nadia, a cafe waitress, places personal ads, looking for love; Debbie, a single mom, entertains men at the hair salon after hours; her son spends part of the weekend with her ex, a man with a hair-trigger temper. Molly is expecting her first baby and its father acts as if the responsibility is too much for him. Eileen is bitter, complaining about her husband and the dog next door; Bill's a doormat. His West Indian neighbor offers him a drink; her own grown son locks himself in his room most of the time. Will anyone connect during this Guy Fawkes weekend? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>

　　该剧改编自真实事件。1988年12月21日，伦敦飞往纽约的泛美航空103号班机遭遇恐怖袭击，造成259名乘客和机组人员丧生，另有11名洛克比当地居民死亡。Jim Swire博士（科林·费尔斯 Colin Firth 饰）的女儿也在洛克比空难中遇难，他被提名为英国受害者家属的发言人，竭尽全力调查空难真相。