Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu (Julianne Moore) and her much younger husband Joe (Charles Melton) welcome Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman), who comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film.
Joe finally begins to process what happened in his youth, and as Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. Set in picturesque and comfortable Camden, Maine, ‘May December’ is an exploration of truth, storytelling, and the difficulties (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.