Gigolo

In this biting social drama based on Edna Ferber's prose, Gideon Gault is a young man of privilege who finds his legacy crumbling under the weight of his mother's vanity. Traveling to Paris to intervene in his mother's disastrous marriage to a predatory younger man, Gideon is swept away by the onset of World War I. Upon his return from the trenches, the irony of his life becomes a suffocating reality: his mother is destitute, abandoned by the very gigolo he warned her about. To sustain her delusions and their survival, Gideon is forced to sell his own youth and dignity to the highest female bidders in the Parisian night. The narrative reaches a fever pitch when the ghosts of his respectable past collide with his shameful present, forcing a reckoning with the transactional nature of high society.