Years have passed and the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo arrives in France with a young woman named Haydée, and becomes involved in the engagements, contracts, and schemes of Parisian socialites and nobles. We begin to follow the lives of Albert de Morcerf, Eugénia Danglars, Franz d'épinay, Valentina de Villefort, and Maximiliano Morrel and their interconnected tribulations.