Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who just recieved a position as captain, after taking over when his captain died in the middle of a trip. He was also looking foward to marrying his beautiful fiancee, Mercedes. On his betrothal day, he is arrested and put into the Chateau d'If. This is a prison on an island, where no one has ever escaped. He doesn't know why he is arrested, and later finds that it is the result of four men who conspired against him. These men were Fernand Mondego, Danglars, Caderousse, and Villefort. They hated him for all different reasons.