The glitz and hypocrisy of the high society of New York at the end of the 19th century. Cher Newland, a successful lawyer who deep down desires real passion, is engaged to the sweet and innocent May Welland, which promises him a complacent and calm life. But when his fiancée’s cousin Helen Olenska returns to the States after a public scandal in Europe, and Acher is caught in the web of her secret power and unspeakable beauty. Now he is forced to make a choice between the world he knows and the world he could only dream of...