Little Dorrit
Created by Andrew Davies
On BBC One
A Dickensian period drama centered on duty, family obligation, and quiet dignity amid poverty, where personal transformation unfolds through patient, interconnected relationships.
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
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