Na França do século 19, o ex-prisioneiro Jean Valjean, perseguido ao longo de décadas pelo impiedoso policial Javert por ter violado sua liberdade condicional, busca redenção pelo seu passado e decide acolher a filha da prostituta Fantine.
A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
