The Beguiled

As the costly American Civil War still rages on, a twelve-year-old student of the forgotten Miss Martha Farnsworth’s Seminary for Young Ladies in warm and humid Mississippi stumbles upon a gravely wounded Union soldier, Corporal John McBurney (Clint Eastwood). Taken in to recover from his injuries, McBurney is imprisoned in a small room inside the mansion. However, before long, the seductive and unwanted guest will manage to take advantage of the female inhabitants’ wartime-subdued desires. But is McBurney really in control over the situation?