
Based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic feminist masterpiece The Yellow Wallpaper, a young mother forced into a compulsory "rest cure" by her controlling doctor husband descends into obsession as she becomes convinced a woman is trapped inside her bedroom's rotting wallpaper and must be set free.
Jane, a writer and young mother, is prescribed a rest treatment by her physician husband John, who takes her to a remote country estate for the summer. She becomes obsessed with the peculiar yellow wallpaper in the bedroom he has chosen for her. In her isolation, she secretly writes about a woman trapped in the wallpaper—that she must free.