Wrongly convicted for crimes he didn't commit solely to get him out of the way, Benjamin Barker, a good and honest barber, is sent to jail. Doomed to spend years without his family. On his release he heads straight for home, hitching a ride on a ship set to dock in London. returning home he finds that the life he knew is completely gone, and Sweeney Todd is born. Revenge becomes his life aims, forgetting everything he ever knew he takes a room above Mrs. Lovett's, and plots death to the Judge Turpin -the man that sent him away- while morning for the daughter he will never get to know. Enter the sailor that was with him on the journey, a rival barber, a malicious lackey and the Judge himself for a tale of more death and sorrow then ever seen before.