"The Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens describes a burning world divided in two - Paris and London during the bloody and beastly French Revolution. After eighteen years of imprisonment in the Bastille, Doctor Manette is released and returns to London, near his daughter Lucie. Father and daughter are called to testify against a young French aristocrat, Charles Darnay, who is wrongly accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears a mysterious resemblance to Sydney Carton, the lawyer's assistant who has taken on the task of defending him. Both men harbor tender feelings for Lucie Manette, the daughter of the former prisoner of the Bastille.

From the calm country roads of London, the four central characters of the story are led, against their will, to the bloodstained streets of Paris, where cries for revenge dominate during the peak days of the French Revolution. Will they manage to survive under the deadly shadow of the guillotine?

Against a turbulent historical backdrop unfolds a magnificent story of daring and self-sacrifice. As cities are destroyed and transformed, and cynics turn into altruistic heroes, faith in life and a better future becomes not only possible but necessary.