When Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue only thinly mask her alcoholism and delusions of grandeur, arrives at her sister Stella's French Quarter apartment, her intent is simple: to take some time off from her stressful teaching career and break the news about the unfortunate loss of the beloved family plantation. But Blanche's thinly-veiled veneer is suddenly cracked by Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a true force of nature: primal, rough-hewn, brutish, and sensual. Their collision course threatens to take down everyone in its path in a clash of lies, propriety, madness, and primal instinct.