Within this Dickens adaptation,'' orphan Pip finds through lawyer Mr. Jaggers a mysterious benefactor wants to make sure he becomes a gentle man. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he finds that the elderly spinster has gone mad from being left at the altar because a new woman, and it has left her charge to a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.