This is a show about two people who love each other and choose not to be together, then spend twelve episodes feeling the weight of that choice every single day. The romance doesn't pull away when separation happens, it lives inside the quiet moments instead, in letters unwritten and rooms where one person is conspicuously absent. By the final episode, you understand that sometimes the most devastating love story is the one where both people do the right thing.

A month after parting from William Jones because of the gap in their social class, Emma takes a new position as one of many maids for the wealthy Molders family in the village of Haworth. Determined to leave the past behind, she settles into an unfamiliar house with an eccentric mistress and fellow servants, some hiding pasts of their own, and she wins the respect of Hans, a gruff but kind footman. In London, William tries to live up to his father's expectations as heir to the Jones family, yet he cannot stop thinking about Emma. Eleanor Campbell is always nearby to comfort him, and she sets out to win his heart. This Victorian romance drama continues a story of love divided by class.