Held captive and faced with their imminent executions, fifty strangers are forced to choose the one person among them who deserves to live.

Two families are brought together by the return of one family's son -- a reunion that conjures up old ghosts and issues that must be addressed.

Follows orphan Pip, who spent his childhood as a blacksmith's apprentice and suddenly receives a windfall from an unknown benefactor that allows him to travel to London and enter high society.