Abandoned at birth by a mother who faces transportation to Virginia, the young Moll Flanders sets out to make her way in the world. Threatened with a life in service, our rebellious heroine sets her heart on a life of independence. One fatal seduction and five husbands later, she resorts to a life of self-supporting crime. On her downward path from the relative respectability of London's underworld, Newgate Prison, and eventual deportation, Moll Flanders gives her frank opinion of temptation, flattery, fortune-hunters, and innocence corrupted in the world of men.