Adapted from the novel by Edith Wharton, this minimalist adaptation explores the ways in which white women become monsters, surrendering their humanity and solidarity with other marginalized people in exchange for proximity to power.

Demure, devoted, and unfailingly uninterested in much of anything outside her own line of sight, May Welland has waited her whole life to reap the rewards of being Absolutely Perfect. She has her handsome—if a little aloof—fiancé Newland Archer, a pristine place in Gilded Age New York’s highest society, and the approval of her mother almost all of the time...until her cousin, the beautiful, volatile Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe stained with scandal. As illicit affection grows between Ellen and Newland, May begins to doubt that her delicately curated world can last, unless she’s willing to wield her power against others, not just for herself.