Lord Arthur Savile is secure, wealthy and engaged to be married to Miss Sybil Merton, whom he truly loves. But then at Lady Windermere's last soiree of the London season he meet Mr. Septimus Podgers, a chiomantist with a substantial reputation for accurate prediction, who is in attendance to read palms. He reads Lord Arthur's and in that moment the unadulterated gold of the young peer's life is darkened by the shadow of a fate foretold: he is destined to commit a murder.