 The story is set in France and England and spans several years before and during the French Revolution.It deals with the evils that precipitated the Revolution and with an innocent family and their friends caught up in the horrors of the Terror.Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who has rejected his rank and moved to England, and Sidney Carton, a perpetually intoxicated English advocate, both fall in love at first sight of Lucie Manette.