After a deranged reality TV contestant nearly kills her in front of a live audience, an ambitious TV executive (Nicole Kidman) loses her job and suffers a nervous breakdown. As a means of recuperating, she and her husband (Matthew Broderick) move to Stepford: a small, quiet community where the wives are brainless, impossibly beautiful domestic goddesses, who live to serve their shady, oafish husbands. Realizing there is something sinister going on behind closed doors, she resolves to find the truth.