A passionate tale of love across the social divide
Como hija de un clérigo de clase media, Margaret Hale ha disfrutado de una educación privilegiada en el rural sur de Inglaterra. Pero cuando su padre desarraiga a la familia, ella se ve obligada a adaptarse a una nueva vida en Milton. Un pueblo de fábricas en el norte en plena revolución industrial. Margare está horrorizada con su nuevo entorno - la suciedad, el ruido y los brusco modales de los habitantes de Milton. Sin embargo, ella guarda su mayor desprecio para los propietarios de las fábricas. Cuando John Thornton, carismático propietario de las Fábricas Marlborought, se convierte en "alumno" de su padre, ella no deja lugar a dudas de su desagrado por esta nueva clase vulgar y sin educación...
Episode 1 (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 2004-11-14
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Margaret Hale, a 19-year-old lively young girl, and her parents leave the south, when her father Richard resigns as the clergy in Helstone on a matter of conscience. The family moves to Milton in the north of England where Mr. Hale starts working as a private tutor. Margaret and her mother find it difficult to adapt to the north. While Margaret tries to deal with her new home and thereby befriends Bessy Higgins and her father Nicholas, poor local mill workers, she becomes aware of the social inequalities. On seeing John Thornton, a cotton-mill owner, badly treating one of his workers, Margaret's prejudices are reinforced. Thornton, on the other hand, forms a more positive opinion of Margaret.
Episode 2 (Episodio 2)
Fecha de emisión: 2004-11-21
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Maria Hale's health ceases and her daughter Margaret decides to contact her brother Frederick - who had to leave England years earlier due to a wrongful court decision. The mill workers in Milton go on strike. In order to get his orders done in time, Thornton hires Irish workers. The angry strikers hear of this and in an attempt to threaten Thornton they hurt Margaret. Overwhelmed at her willing help to save Thornton from the strikers, he decides to propose to Margaret.
Episode 3 (Episodio 3)
Fecha de emisión: 2004-11-28
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Deeply hurt at the refusal of his marriage proposal, Thornton and Margaret's relationship becomes more tense and difficult. Just in time, Frederick comes home to visit his dying mother. Thornton mistakes him for Margaret's lover. As Margaret realizes that she might have been mistaken in her harsh and hasty criticism of Thornton, she has to sadly observe his opinion of her altering. Shortly after the death of her mother, Margaret's friend Bessy also dies.
Episode 4 (Episodio 4)
Fecha de emisión: 2004-12-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Frederick safely reaches Spain. After her father's death, Margaret leaves Milton to live with her aunt in London. Thornton learns that Frederick is Margaret's brother. With the money that she inherited from Mr. Bell, her godfather, she decides to help Mr. Thornton's mill from closing.
