Young Pip stays with his sister and brother-in-law, after his parents' death. Pip has a scary encounter with an escaped convict in the village graveyard. Later, he is sent to work for Miss Havisham, an eccentric spinster who lives alone in a big house with a young girl, Estella. Thanks to an unknown benefactor, Pip goes to London to lead the life of a gentleman. Who is the benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham or the convict Pip had helped as a child? And does Estella really love Pip or is she toying with his affections?