Edmundo Dantès returns to Marseilles after a long voyage aboard the Pharaon and reunites with his father and his sweetheart, Mercédès Herrera. Jealous of his recent promotion and his engagement to Mercédès, Danglars and Fernand Mondego forge a letter accusing Dantès of Bonapartist sympathies, leading to Dantès' imprisonment in the Castillo de If.

Dantès learns of the treasure hidden on the isle of Monte Cristo and escapes from the Castillo de If.

14 years after his arrest, Dantès briefly returns to Marseilles to pay a debt. After bidding farewell to his old life, he begins his transformation into the Count of Monte Cristo, assembling his plans for vengeance upon the conspirators.

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.

The Crown Prosecutor begins investigating the Count; meanwhile, the Count's schemes lead to the elimination of his first target.

The Count of Morcerf is publicly disgraced, leading to a fateful confrontation between his son, Albert, and the Count of Monte Cristo

The Count's plan reaches fruition with the fall of his remaining two enemies. Now all that remains is to arrange the final pieces on the board and finish the game.