George Viccars falls violently ill with a high fever, a red rash, and a large putrid bubo on his neck.

George Viccars dies from the plague, his final words urging Anna to burn all of his belongings.

Anna's younger son Tom succumbs to the plague and bleeds out in the bed where she had fallen asleep holding him.

Anna's older son Jamie falls ill with the plague and dies after five days of suffering despite all efforts to save him.

A mob throws Mem Gowdie into a flooded mine shaft to test whether she is a witch.

The crowd hangs Anys Gowdie after she mockingly confesses to being a witch who has lain with the devil.

Mompellion delivers a sermon urging the entire congregation to accept voluntary quarantine to protect neighboring villages from the plague.

The entire congregation agrees to quarantine except the Bradfords, who secretly flee the village without warning.

Anna discovers Elinor cataloging herbs in the Gowdie cottage, and the two women formally agree to become the village's healers.

Josiah Bont is tried at the miner's tavern for attacking Christopher Unwin in his sickbed and stealing from his home.

A storm floods the mine where Josiah is pinned to the wall, and he drowns before animals tear his body apart.

Brand and Robert Snee drag Aphra before the crowd at the bonfire, exposing her as the fake witch who has been selling charms.

The plague wanes and Mompellion gathers the surviving villagers in Cucklett Delf for a service of thanksgiving.

Aphra fatally stabs Elinor in the neck during the thanksgiving service and then turns the knife on herself.

Anna rescues the Bradford baby from Elizabeth Bradford's attempt to drown her, then flees Eyam and sails to Algeria.

Year of Wonders begins when a London tailor arrives in the village of Eyam carrying the bubonic plague, setting off a catastrophe that kills scores of residents including Anna Frith's two young sons. Rector Michael Mompellion persuades the terrified congregation to accept a voluntary quarantine, sealing the village off from the outside world to prevent the disease from spreading to neighboring towns. Social order rapidly collapses as the town healer Mem Gowdie is murdered by a mob and Anna and Elinor Mompellion step forward to fill the void, caring for the sick and dying with whatever remedies they can find. The worst of the community's moral failure is embodied by Josiah Bont, who exploits grieving families until the village exacts justice, and by Aphra, whose grief-driven madness culminates in Elinor's murder at the very moment the plague begins to recede. Anna buries her closest friend and endures a final shattering revelation about Mompellion before making one last act of courage to rescue an unwanted infant. She flees Eyam forever and sails to a new life in Algeria, carrying the child and the hard-won knowledge she earned through a year of wonders.

The plague's arrival, the quarantine decision, and Eyam's devastating losses.

George Viccars sews Anna a dress from fine London cloth, kisses her, and declares his desire to be more than a friend.

A Bradford Hall dinner turns tense when Mompellion argues that fleeing a plague only spreads the contagion further.

Jamie and Edward Hadfield play with a pile of dead rats near the woodpile until the adults force them to stop.

The barber-surgeon bleeds Edward Hadfield with leeches and storms out of the village when Anna raises the possibility of plague.

Mompellion arrives after the lynching, denounces the crowd as murderers, and demands they fall to their knees in repentance.

Anna successfully delivers Mary Daniel's crosswise baby, overcoming her traumatic childhood fear of childbirth for the first time.

Brand returns to Eyam pushing a paralyzed Maggie Cantwell in a stolen cart after neighboring villagers pelted her with rotten food.

Josiah Bont forces Anna to kneel before him in the tavern and demands a muzzle to silence her in public.

Maggie Cantwell suffers a second stroke the night Brand brings her back and dies in Anna's cottage.

Mompellion decrees that church services must move to Cucklett Delf and that each household must bury its own dead.

Anna and Elinor descend into the mine to extract ore and secure orphaned Merry Wickford's claim on her family's seam.

Anna uses fire-setting to loosen ore, becomes trapped under falling rubble, and is pulled free by Elinor and Merry just in time.

Anna sneaks to Aphra's cottage at night and finds her dancing ritually with a snake beside Faith's body hung from the rafters.

Mompellion closes himself inside the rectory after Elinor's death and stops eating, sleeping, and performing any of his duties.

Elizabeth Bradford arrives at the rectory begging Mompellion to help her dying mother, but he coldly refuses and speaks blasphemously against God.

Pool 2 traces the crucial but often overlooked events that give texture to Eyam's devastating year, beginning with the brief romantic spark between Anna and George Viccars before the plague extinguished all hope. As disease spreads, the community's fear takes destructive forms — a Bradford Hall dinner where Mompellion first argues against fleeing, children playing obliviously with plague-infected rats, and a barber-surgeon whose medieval methods do more harm than good. Anna and Elinor emerge as the village's practical lifelines, delivering babies under desperate conditions, descending into mines to protect an orphan girl's livelihood, and nursing the sick through the long quarantine winter. The return of Brand with the paralyzed Maggie Cantwell drives home how utterly Eyam has been cut off from the outside world, while Josiah Bont's public humiliation of Anna in the tavern reveals the patriarchal violence she has always endured. As the plague recedes, Aphra's descent into ritual madness reaches its horrifying conclusion, and Mompellion's spiritual collapse leaves a power vacuum at the very moment the Bradfords return seeking help they never deserved.

The secondary moments that shaped Eyam's year of tragedy.

Elinor Mompellion teaches Anna to read and encourages her to learn about herbal plant medicine from the Gowdies.

Anys tells Anna she slept with George Viccars and will never marry because she refuses to be any man's property.

Mem Gowdie dies at the rectory five days after the mob attacked her, leaving the village entirely without a healer.

Anna steals the poppy Elinor brought to ease a laboring woman's pain and takes it home to dull her own grief.

Elinor reveals her hidden past to Anna: a seduction, an abandoned elopement, a self-performed abortion, and a permanently damaged womb.

Anna and Elinor discover while researching that Eyam's elderly residents are surviving the plague while the young are dying.

Anna burns the poppy seeds she found at the Gowdie cottage, pledging her full commitment to fighting the plague alongside Elinor.

Anna offers Josiah Bont two of her lambs in exchange for helping dig graves at the rectory.

Mompellion collapses from exhaustion during a church service and Mr. Stanley steps forward to address the congregation in his place.

Anna finds John Gordon emaciated and shirtless on the moors, flogging himself with a nail-studded leather scourge.

Mompellion angrily berates Jane Martin for having sex openly in a ditch but dismisses her male companion without any punishment.

Elinor falls dangerously ill with a high fever and begins hallucinating, calling out for her long-ago lover Charles.

Elinor's fever breaks overnight and she steadily recovers, filling Anna with relief and renewed hope that the plague can be survived.

Mompellion confesses to Anna that he withheld sex from Elinor throughout their entire marriage to punish her for her youthful sin.

Anna arrives in Algeria, becomes midwife apprentice to the healer Ahmed Bey, and names her two daughters Aisha and Elinor.

Pool 3 charts the emotional and intellectual turning points that transform Anna Frith from a fearful housemaid into a fiercely independent woman. Elinor Mompellion's mentorship — teaching Anna to read and encouraging her to study herbal medicine — plants the seeds of Anna's eventual purpose, while Anys Gowdie's radical refusal to marry challenges everything Anna was raised to believe about women's place in the world. As the plague deepens, Elinor's confession about her hidden past reframes the entire Mompellion marriage and draws the two women into a profound scientific partnership, their discovery that Eyam's elders are surviving pushing them toward rational inquiry over prayer. Mompellion's own collapse — first physical, then moral — is charted through a series of disturbing revelations, from his cruel treatment of Jane Martin to his shocking admission that he denied Elinor intimacy throughout their marriage as punishment for her youthful sin. Each turning point strips away another illusion, until Anna, clear-eyed and unencumbered, makes her final choice to leave Eyam and build a life of her own in Algeria.