Laura, a young woman from Russia, lives in Memphis with her boyfriend, aging music legend Alan James. When Alan’s estranged grown-up son, Michael, shows up in Memphis for the first time in years, his initial hostility to Laura soon turns into something much more, and they embark on an affair.

Surfaces appear diamond-hard in this modern melodrama, but expensive looks can be deceiving. Gliding through white middle-class America with serene sadness, actor Dina Korzun is astonishing as a detached interloper in Ira Sachs’s masterful film of betrayal, heartache, and hushed ecstasy.