In late 18th-century London, at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. As capital, growing alongside bustling factories, began to change social status, an incident occurred that captured everyone's attention. An 'Irish millionaire,' who had flooded London society—eager for anything Shakespearean—with unpublished relics like original sonnets, wills, IOUs, and letters, found himself on trial over the controversial forgery of the play 'Vortigern.' Amidst a fierce debate over 'Is it Shakespeare's work or not?' William Samuel Ireland passionately defends his son, William Henry Ireland, who begins to tell his own story instead of testifying, and a mysterious gentleman, H., emerges with new relics.