In the eighteenth century on the windswept moors of Dorsetshire, the small village of Moonfleet is besieged by a ruthless gang of smugglers. It is here that young John Mohune arrives at his family's ancestral estate, now owned by a dashing, yet mysterious aristocrat, Jeremy Fox. Out of love for the boy's mother, but against his better judgment, Fox grudgingly allows John to stay. He gradually becomes attached to the boy, but his devotion is tested when John stumbles onto the smuggler's hidden lair beneath the village graveyard and discovers a shocking secret which could cost both him and Fox their lives. -- Container.