The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in an island fortress on a false political charge. Months pass, and Dantes begins to plan his escape. As he digs his way out he discovers another prisoner also trying to escape. They team up and plan to escape together but the other prisoner dies. Before his death, however, he tells Edmond about a treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Dantes searches for the lost treasure and plans his revenge against the people that put him behind bars.