On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontes of Haworth then? Branwell died young, but his sisters became famous writers. But they did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.


1821年九月的某天在約克郡裡村落的教堂，一位男子和六個孩子圍繞著一個墳墓。他們正在燒一位婦女－男子的太太、孩子們的媽媽。孩子們年紀都還小，過沒幾年最大的兩個也相繼去世了。在約克郡美麗的湖泊邊，這位爸爸獨自扶養孩子長大。這就是布朗特一家人的故事，弟弟布朗偉爾英年早逝，他的姐姐們都成為知名作家，但他們沒有沉浸在名聲中，最後他們的爸爸去世。