Four-part drama series inspired by the historical events of 1666 and focusing on events which led to the catastrophic fire. Thomas Farriner is the King's baker, supplying bread and biscuits for the Navy. A widower, Thomas works alongside his daughters Mary and Hannah in his Pudding Lane bakery. Across the city in the palace of Whitehall, while the King is at a stately dance, a terrifying assassination attempt is foiled by the King's intelligence officer, Lord Denton. Later, Thomas returns home to Pudding Lane to find the bakery ablaze and his two daughters asleep upstairs, unaware of the raging inferno below.