From a tragic childhood when she was abused physically and emotionally by her inhuman Aunt Reed to a youth when she falls in love with Edward Rochester – her Byronic employer at Thornfield where she works as a governess – only to learn on their wedding day about his lunatic wife, the passionate and principled Jane Eyre endures many a hardships and oppressions. And after she leaves Thornfield, reduced to destitution, the Rivers family becomes her benefactor. What happens when St John Rivers, her cold clergyman-cousin, proposes to her ? Will she accept his proposal or return to Rochester ?