The film's most infamous sequence—the masked orgy at Somerton—unveils a world of unchecked power.
The narrative centers on Dr. Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman, in her first collaboration with Cruise since they married). Their seemingly stable marriage begins to unravel after a high-society Christmas party when Alice confesses to having had intense, vivid sexual fantasies about a naval officer she glimpsed on vacation. Shaken by her confession and consumed by jealousy, Bill embarks on a surreal, nocturnal odyssey through Manhattan. He is drawn into a night of escalating temptation, beginning with a near-miss with a patient's daughter and continuing through a seedy hotel encounter. His journey culminates in his discovery of a secret, opulent masked orgy at a palatial estate, an event he attends after procuring a costume and a password. index of eyes wide shut
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