Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman) is young and beautiful, arrogant and takes away the hearts of many men, but she just wants to live free. Lord Warburton's proposal was rejected at the Gardens and Grange in England. Then he went to London to visit cousin Ralph and his girlfriend, and Goodwood asked her to marry him. She met the dignified and beautiful Mel at her cousin's house. In Florence, Mayer introduces him to Osmond (John Markovich John Malkovich), who has no money and no power but has good taste. Osmond fell in love with Isabel, and she gradually fell in love. Isabel married Osmond a year later. After marriage, their son died in the cradle. Later, she learned that her cousin was critically ill and went to see Ralph for the last time despite her husband's opposition, when her sister-in-law told her a secret. This film is adapted from the famous American writer Henry. James' novel of the same name.