On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

She was the person you passed in the hallways; the one you sat next to in class. Who you used to have a crush on. She felt a thousand miles away from you, with her perfect life and her bright future. Then one day she was gone. What had went wrong? You didn't know, until you found a picture album that belonged to her.