Lost in a blizzard on the rocky English moors, a stranger stumbles upon Wuthering Heights, the dark gloomy estate of the mysterious Heathcliff, a man so tortured by unrequited love he has lost the will to live. As the storm rages on, the weary wanderer is mesmerised by the sorrowful tale of how Heathcliff, a former stableboy, shared an innocent love with Cathy, a wild spirit whose fiery passion for him could tragically never be realised. For when Heathcliff goes off to seek his fortune, he returns to find Cathy married in to high society - a discovery that shatters his soul but cannot touch the burning desire that will rage in him forever.