Reisen Sie an die raue, schöne und oft gefährliche Küste Cornwalls im 18. Jahrhundert. Diese Serie entführt Sie in ein Land, das von Armut und Angst überschattet wird, wo Verzweiflung Kühnheit hervorbringt. Folgen Sie Charakteren, die sich in einer Welt des heimlichen Schmuggels und des prekären Überlebens bewegen, angetrieben von Widerstandsfähigkeit und dem unnachgiebigen Streben nach Freiheit.
Hide from the thief-taker, for if he finds you, he will take you away ... Eighteenth-century Cornwall is crippled by debt and poverty, and the gibbet casts a shadow of fear over the land. Yet, when night falls, free traders swarm onto the beaches and smuggling prospers.
Forced from her comfortable life into domestic service, Janey Carhart is determined to make something of life. She eventually finds work as a lady's maid at Bosvenna Manor on the edge of Bodmin Moor. Caught between the two worlds of upstairs and downstairs, and accepted by neither, as she cares for her mistress.
Can you trust a man with no name?Cornwall, 1861Beth Jago appears to have the idyllic life, she has a trade to earn a living and a cottage of her own in Cornwall's beautiful River Valley. Yet appearances can be deceptive ...