Beginning twenty-some years after newspapers reported a woman’s affair with a thirteen-year-old boy, Todd Haynes’s latest drama pits the headline against a married life as seen by the actress who will bring the scandal to the screen.
Set in the 1950s, two married women fall in love and remain determined to hold onto their love and break free of the shackles of a less enlightened time.
The story of a relationship between two women, Carol and Therese, in 1950’s America, when women were housewives controlled by their husbands.