In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obta最后羔羊in the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patientmuvly waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.