London 1850: After being abandoned as a child at age seven, John Wolcott grows up hardened by life's challenges. He applies his considerable talent and becomes a shipping tycoon feared alike by the business world and pirates on the high seas. He chooses a wife who will further elevate him into England's financial elite. He has a daughter Louisa and arranges to marry her off to another tycoon who owns a railroad-car empire an empire that Wolcott...