In February of 1815, in Marseille, the sailor Edmond Dantes is falsely accused of Bonapartism and arrested on their wedding day, on the threshold of a brilliant naval career. While imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, a rock in the middle of the sea, fosters a fierce hatred for the perpetrators of his downfall, and when the friendship with another prisoner gives him evasion as well as a fabulous treasure, will put in place a great vengeance and merciless.