Written by and co-starring Academy Award Winner Emma Thompson Effie Gray explores the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin, his teenage bride Effie Gray and Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. After marrying at the tender age of 19, Effie quickly realises her marriage is a lie when Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for the charms of the artist John Everett Millais. Desperate to be freed from John, Effie embarks on a life-changing journey to become one of the first women in history to seek a divorce from her husband, making her an everlasting figure in feminist history.