In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for 一个人看的视频观看免费观看his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.