After marrying Victorian art critic John Ruskin, Effie Gray quickly realizes her marriage is a lie when Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for Ruskin's protégé, charismatic painter John Everett Millais. Desperate to be freed from Ruskin, Effie embarks on a life-changing journey to become one of the first women in history to seek a divorce from her husband.
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