A Polish Holocaust survivor tries to start afresh in 1940s New York, but is tormented by ghosts from her nightmarish past, leaving her desperately seeking solace in a stormy relationship with an unpredictable chemist. But all is not as it seems, as a new neighbour seems set to discover. Drama, starring an Oscar-winning Meryl Streep alongside Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol.

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.