Voir Bleak House - Episode 1

Alone in the world after the death of her aunt, Esther Summerson is brought to the High Court of Chancery by Mr Guppy, clerk to Mr Kenge, one of the lawyers in the infamous suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, a complicated case which has already taken years and brought nothing but ruin and despair to all it touches. Guppy mistakenly thinks that Esther may have a claim to the Jarndyce fortune, but she is there for the Judge to decide whether she will be a suitable companion for Ada Clare, one of the two Wards of Court in the case.