When Heathcliff, a poor Gypsy boy, is adopted into wealthy Catherine
Earnshaw's family, he and Catherine form a bond that progresses from
childhood friendship to teenage passion. Because of Heathcliff's lowly
social status, however, Catherine decides she cannot marry him, and
instead marries the gentleman Edgar Linton. This sets in motion a chain
of events that ravages both the Linton and Earnshaw families with
jealousy, revenge, and bitterness, leaving only the ghosts of Catherine
and Heathcliff to haunt the moors.