Valjean expresses his joy at being free. Although he will never forgive his jailers or forget the wrong done to him, he plans to start a new life. However, he quickly learns that because he is branded as a thief, he cannot make a living or find a place to stay. He discovers that to a paroled man, the outside world is little more than another kind of jail.
He sees the law as having cursed his life. In the town of Digne, a saintly Bishop allows Valjean to stay in his house overnight. The bitter Valjean steals some silver from the Bishop and is questioned by constables. Valjean lies and says the Bishop gave him the silver. The Bishop not only backs up his lie, but he also gives him two silver candlesticks as well, asking that he use the silver to become an honest man.
He realizes the Bishop has given him a chance to reclaim his soul. He decides to tear up his yellow ticket of leave and begin a new life with a new identity. It is eight years later. A group of poor workers at the factory expresses their despair with their barren, impoverished lives.
They gossip about the foreman and one of the female workers, Fantine, who has resisted his advances. They grab a letter away from Fantine and learn that she has a child living with innkeepers in another town.
She struggles to get her letter back. Valjean appears, now Mayor of Montreuil Sur Mer as well as the owner of the factory, but allows his foreman to handle the matter. The women insist that Fantine be fired because of her loose morals. Although she explains that she is the sole supporter of her child because her lover abandoned her, the foreman fires Fantine.
She reflects on how different the world seemed when she first fell in love, before life killed her dreams. Fantine wanders to the red light district, where she finds herself among sailors and prostitutes. She sells her necklace and her hair, and then she becomes a prostitute to earn money for her daughter. When she refuses to entertain a street idler, Bamatabois, he is so enraged that he lies to Javert, claiming she attacked him.
The Mayor Valjean comes to Fantine's aid and learns that she is only in her present circumstance because he turned his back on her at his factory.
When Valjean realizes that she and her daughter are innocent victims, he demands that Javert release her. Suddenly, an old man, Fauchelevent, is pinned down by a runaway cart, and The Mayor Valjean saves him by lifting the cart. Javert says that he has seen that kind of strength only once before, in a prisoner at Toulon.
However, he knows that the Mayor cannot be the individual he is describing because Javert has recently re-arrested that man for a minor crime. In fact, he says Jean Valjean's trial is about to take place. The real Valjean realizes that he will not be able to live with himself if he does not confess his identity and spare the falsely identified man. He appears at the trial of the accused man and confesses his real identity in front of Javert.
Fantine is taken ill and lies delirious in the hospital. Valjean escapes Javert to come to her bedside. He promises he will protect her daughter, Cosette. Fantine dies, believing that he will keep his promise. As Valjean sits grieving beside her, Javert appears. Valjean begs Javert to allow him to find Cosette and leave her in safety before he is jailed.
Javert refuses to trust him. Valjean breaks a chair and threatens Javert with it. Javert speaks of his own history, saying he has risen from a past in the gutter and now lives only for the law. Invoking his promise to Fantine, Valjean overcomes Javert and escapes.
She sings of a castle on a cloud where she could lead a life filled with love and free of tears. Her reverie is interrupted by the evil Mme. She praises her own daughter, Eponine, and sends Cosette out to the well in the woods for water.
Cosette begs not to be sent into the woods in the dark but is ordered to go by Mme. As they finish, Jean Valjean appears with the trembling Cosette. Valjean promises Cosette there will be castles in her future. The scene shifts to the streets of Paris in Beggars are crying out for help. Gavroche, a young boy, is among them. A group of students led by Enjolras enters and accuse the nation's leaders of ignoring the poor. He has enlisted his daughter, Eponine, now a young woman, into his illicit activities.
Eponine is in love with Marius, one of Enjolras's student friends. However, Marius does not return her affection. Jean Valjean and Cosette appear. Marius sees Cosette for the first time and falls in love with her. Marius is finally able to make contact with Cosette, and the two declare their love for each other.
Valjean, however, soon shatters their happiness. Worried that he will lose Cosette and unnerved by political unrest in the city, Valjean announces that he and Cosette are moving to England. In desperation, Marius runs to his grandfather, M.
Gillenormand, to ask for M. Their meeting ends in a bitter argument. When Marius returns to Cosette, she and Valjean have disappeared. Heartbroken, Marius decides to join his radical student friends, who have started a political uprising. Armed with two pistols, Marius heads for the barricades.
The uprising seems doomed, but Marius and his fellow students nonetheless stand their ground and vow to fight for freedom and democracy. The students discover Javert among their ranks, and, realizing that he is a spy, Enjolras ties him up. Marius quickly scribbles a reply and orders a boy, Gavroche, to deliver it to Cosette. Valjean manages to intercept the note and sets out to save the life of the man his daughter loves.
Valjean arrives at the barricade and volunteers to execute Javert. When alone with Javert, however, Valjean instead secretly lets him go free. As the army storms the barricade, Valjean grabs the wounded Marius and flees through the sewers. When Valjean emerges hours later, Javert immediately arrests him. Javert agrees. He feels pity for her and gives her five francs, and she thanks him in argot.
Discovering that he is only in love with Cosette, she is unhappy with his request, but agrees to help him find her for him after making him promise to give her anything she wants as payment.
Later that day, Valjean comes back to the apartment alone with rent money. Discovering that it is Valjean and Cosette's house, she informs him the house has no worth. With the assistance of the churchwarden Mabeuf, she finds Marius in a park called "The Field of the Lark.
She then tells Marius that she wants her payment, and he puts a five-franc coin in her hand. She opens her fingers and lets it fall to the ground, and tells him it is not money she wants.
Marius soon meets Cosette in the gardens of the house and the two profess their love to each other. She suddenly sees her father, Patron-Minette and Brujon attempt to break into the house. Hearing this, the men leave. She finds Valjean and anonymously throws a note to him, which tells him to move away.
She also intercepts Cosette's letter to Marius so that Marius does not receive it the letter includes Cosette's new temporary address and when Cosette and Valjean will leave France. The next day is the first day of the student uprising. She follows Courfeyrac to the barricades to learn its location, and then goes to Valjean and Cosette's house and waits.
Marius arrives and discovers the house deserted. Wanting to die before Marius, she steps between him and the soldier and puts her hand on the front of the soldier's musket barrel, taking the fatal shot herself. After this, she calls out to Marius and tells him she is dying.
She asks him to lay her on his knees and he does so. She then confesses to Marius her role in sending him to the barricades, and why she took the shot for him.
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