A vain London playboy offers his soul for eternal beauty in this adaptation of this story by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions per distinctive portrait that will weather the oceans of time while he remains for ever young. His desperate efforts to protect his covert turn his once-privileged life into a hell when grey's obsession spirals out of control.