After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husbandâs imposing family estate on a windswept English coast. Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maximâs first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderleyâs sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas).