When young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by a wealthy gentleman into his home, he quickly forms a close bond with his benefactor's daughter, Cathy. What begins as a childhood friendship morphs over the course of years into a desperate, twisted, possessive love between the two, as they wrestle with the violent and tyrannical rule of Cathy's brother, Hindley, and the restrictions of social class that keep them apart. What follows is an ingenious and darkly captivating narrative of frustrated passion and violent revenge, of tortured heartbreak that echoes down the generations, wrought with all the brutality, power, and wildness of the Yorkshire moors where it unfolds.