In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.

A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne.