A young wife and aspiring photographer, Joanna Eberhart, moves her family from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut, only to discover that the women in town are eerily flawless and devoid of intellectual interests. As she becomes increasingly frustrated with their subservient behavior, Joanna befriends a quirky neighbor who shares her desire for change, but their efforts at organizing a women's liberation meeting are met with resistance from the town's authoritarian patriarchs. What follows is a descent into madness as Joanna uncovers a sinister conspiracy involving android duplicates and a mysterious organization that will stop at nothing to maintain its grip on the town.