Anna Elliot, the middle daughter of the foolish Sir Walter, who only cares about his own peerage, is long past his years of tumult. At the age of nineteen, she took the advice of a friend and broke off her engagement to the insignificant naval officer Frederick Wentworth. But when they meet again after eight years, everything is different. Sir Walter has been forced by his own incompetence and extravagance to rent the family mansion and move to Bath, and Captain Wentworth returns to his very house as a rich man with a great name. Will old feelings reawaken when the two young people meet again?