 A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves in this adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricks him into marriage and she is married to an abusive nobleman. Living out of wedlock, the two are rejected by the townspeople leaving them to struggle in abject poverty. Change " he is married to a woman who tricks him into marriage" to "he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage"