剧集根据玛格丽特·阿特伍德小说《别名格蕾丝》改编，讲述女佣格蕾丝(莎拉·加顿饰)意外谋杀了雇主，而她却被认定为最臭名昭著的女人之一。

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.