When she is ten years old, Fanny Price is brought to live with her rich relations at Mansfield Park. Timid and quiet, she does not fit in with the smart, sophisticated Bertrams. Only her cousin Edmund is kind to her, and as she grows up, she finds herself falling in love with him. But when Fanny is eighteen, a new family move to the neighbourhood. Brother and sister Henry and Mary Crawford are glamorous, flirtatious and very attractive. Their arrival will shatter the stability of the Bertram family, and shake the foundations of Fanny's world...