Moneyless Becky Sharp leaves school with her upper class friend Amelia Sedley. But she is clever, cunning and determined to make her way in Regency society, and she'll trample on anyone who gets in her way.
Becky has married Rawdon, but her plans to enrich them both have come to nought with their disinheritance by Aunty Crawley. But we are on the eve of Waterloo, how can she turn this to her advantage?