The life and career of Michael Jordan contrasts with that of Joe Hirsch. One is born into a comfortable middle class family, the other a refugee. Their stories cross and parallel over 25-years from the end of the Second World War onwards, taking in British social change as they go.
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
Siglo XVIII. Se basa en una novela de Daniel Defoe sobre las aventuras de Moll Flanders, una chica que empezó trabajando como doncella, fue después esposa de un rico banquero, acompañante de un conde, cómplice de una banda de ladrones de cuyo jefe se enamoró. Moll Flanders va dando tumbos por el mundo en busca de un amor que la ayude a sobrevivir.
Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.
