Jane Eyre begins her story as an orphan adopted by her uncle who soon dies and leaves her to suffer the abuse of her aunt and cousins before entering Lowood School. After her education, where she learns as much about being impoverished as she does about dishonesty, she becomes a governess of the Thornfield Manor. Although she falls in love with he employer, Edward Rochester (Toby Stephens) but it is her cousin St John Rivers who proposes to her and. Jane is torn between joining her cousin in India as a humanitarian, and attempting to reunite with the man she loves.