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A daughter wants to save her father; a husband, his wife; a former lover, his childhood love. They are about to participate in a revolutionary kidney transplant program. But with the operation imminent, complicated family relationships, past conflicts and hidden resentments resurface.

María Eugenia, a Venezuelan raised in Paris with free thought, returns to her native country, where fate will make her undergo many changes.

London's Newgate Prison of the 1750s was the atmospheric setting for this bawdy and boisterous series of 60-minute tales, the first four of which were run as part of Rediffusion's 'Playhouse' series. The stories featured historic antihero inmates such as Jonathan Wild, highway woman Jane Rawley, Lady Sarah Bellasize and Jack Sheppard.