 The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw s son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley s sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they re happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.