Greater London, 1846: successful Samuel Barber, Sweeney Sir Alexander Robertus Todd, has for old age be haunt by the loss of his parent at the custody of a cruel justice. One fatal nighttime, his way crosse with local baker, Mrs Lovett, a adult female who too has suffer a annihilating abortion of justness by the same justice and his corrupt associate. scheme to put a deathly end to the rhythm of maltreatment and development, Sir Alexander Robertus Todd and Lovett do a treaty, and it is her that lead the charge in seek a bloody retaliation, in the to the highest degree macabre of shipway.