Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. Inthe 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband anda wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin. Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of herlife. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to herchild, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joyfor Hester Prynne. And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?