Catherine and Heathcliff grow up together. The dark-haired homeless boy that Catherine's father, Mr. Earnshaw, brought into the house will become her playmate and the chosen one of her heart. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Catherine's brother humiliates and belittles Heathcliff, depriving him of education and any opportunity for advancement. Catherine, believing that Heathcliff is not worthy of her, decides to marry someone else, and a bitter Heathcliff leaves the house.
When he returns a few years later, Heathcliff's transformation is impressive. But behind his refined manners lies an unquenchable hatred for those who humiliated him and made him suffer. His diabolical mind devises a terrible plan of revenge, which in the end will destroy him as well.
The novel was published in 1847 and is a captivating, tempestuous love story. In the wild nature of the English north, in a misty, melancholic but at the same time threatening landscape, the cursed love of Catherine and Heathcliff is born. A love that will bring misery to the two heroes and their close ones.