Ethan Frome

In this tragic story set on a bleak New England farm, a poverty-stricken man named Ethan Frome has resigned himself to a wasted existence. Duty binds him to a woman he cannot love, and he is haunted by a past that is full of missed opportunities. But when his ailing wife's orphaned cousin, Mattie Silver, arrives, his hopes are rekindled, and the three are drawn relentlessly into a heartbreaking domestic struggle.