Emily Brontë (Emma Mackey) is told she must be quiet, obedient, and dutiful, never speaking her mind nor sharing her thoughts. However, Emily is wildly alive and has a voice yearning to be heard. Exploring the young author’s sisterhood with Charlotte (Alexandra Dowling) and Anne (Amelia Gething), as well as her forbidden love for a local clergyman (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Australian performer Frances O’Connor makes an assured directorial debut with her gothic imagining of the journey into womanhood by one of literature’s most provocative and influential novelists.

Frances O'Connor's EMILY imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, Emily Brontë - who died too soon at the age of 30.