Dominoes Level 3: Hard Times

After Sissy Jupe - a circus child - is left alone in the world, Thomas Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teaching her facts with his own children, Tom and Louisa. Some years later, the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa becomes a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and imagination.