Gossip Girl meets Downtown Abbey! In June 1895, young ladies from prominent families arrive in sumptuous Newport, Rhode Island, to husband-hunt, fall in love, and come of age in the Gilded Age summer playground of the rich and famous.

New York City, 1895: In a time of strict morals and manners, a writer married to an abusive man and a publisher married to a dying woman are trapped in an elevator together for a weekend, a circumstance which changes both of their lives forever.