The Age of Innocence

"The Age of Innocence" is a story of a love triangle and at the same time a broad picture of New York high society in the late 1870s. Newland Archer is an ambitious and respectable lawyer leading an ordinary life, about to marry the beautiful May Welland, while deep down he longs for passion amidst his routine days. But then May's cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, returns from Europe to New York after a public scandal with her husband. Ellen Olenska is very beautiful, her entire persona is shrouded in mysteries, and for the conservative New York society, her behavior and views are unacceptable. Newland is enchanted by Ellen, he falls in love with her...