Based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence is a lush and tragic tale of love, duty, and societal constraints in Gilded Age New York. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film follows Newland Archer, a respected lawyer engaged to the proper May Welland. When the unconventional and captivating Countess Olenska returns to New York, Newland is torn between passion and the expectations of high society.