In the Luxembourg garden in Paris, a poor student sees a young girl walking with her father. Their eyes meet across the garden, and in a second, Marius is in love. Who is this lovely girl? He must meet her and talk to her.But this is Paris in the 1830s. The rich ride in carriages, and eat from gold plates. The poor have no work, no food, no hope - they are Les Miserables, angry people, and the July revolution is coming.How can true love possibly find a way in these dangerous and troubled times?