Cornwall, 1783. Ross Poldark returns from the battlefield to find his father dead.
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.
Cornwall, 1783. Ross Poldark returns from the battlefield to find his father dead.
Ross plans to reopen his family mine with Francis. Demelza struggles to fit in at Nampara.
Rumours spread of a scandalous relationship between Ross and Demelza.
News of Ross and Demelza's marriage spreads, damaging Wheal Leisure's prospects.
Demelza gives birth. Ross welcomes old friend Dr Dwight Enys to Cornwall.
With Jim gravely ill in jail, Ross and Dwight launch a desperate mission to save him.
Francis wrongly blames Ross for helping Verity elope with Andrew Blamey.
George expands the Warleggan empire, launching a new ship and bankrupting Carnmore.
