Experience a year in the life of a small group of young people in the countryside outside London at the turn of the nineteenth century. At the center of this society is the Bennet family, with its five marriageable daughters. Mrs. Bennet sees marriage as the only hope for her girls as they risk losing much of their estate after the death of their father. She s overjoyed, then, at the news of the arrival of a single man of considerable fortune to the neighborhood: Charles Bingley."