Acclaimed writer Andrew Davies turns his talents to one of Charles Dickens' most brilliant novels, arguably the greatest ever depiction of Victorian London -- from its splendid heights to its most wretched depths.

The charitable John Jarndyce, struggling with his own past, and his two attractive young wards Richard and Ada, are all caught up, like Lady Dedlock, in the infamous -- and interminable -- legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which will make one of them rich beyond imagination if it can ever be brought to a conclusion.

Jarndyce takes Esther Summerson, a girl without a past, under his wing as a companion for Ada, but he falls in love with her and her connection with Lady Dedlock may ruin them both.

An epic feast of characters and storylines, Bleak House is Dickens' passionate indictment of the convoluted legal system that is as searingly relevant today as it was in the mid-19th century. The court of Chancery becomes the center of a tangle of relationships at all levels of society and a metaphor for the decay and corruption at the heart of Victorian England.