Anora, a young sex worker from Brooklyn, gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as the parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Iman’s family is thrust into the public eye when he is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran. As political unrest erupts, Iman realizes that his job is more dangerous than expected, making him increasingly paranoid and distrustful, even of his own wife Najmeh and daughters Rezvan and Sana.