Madame X

Summary

From the gilded cage of matrimonial bliss, a woman is brutally cast out into the unforgiving urban wilderness, exiled by a husband whose jealousy eclipses all reason. This precipitous fall from grace plunges her into a labyrinthine descent, each year further eroding her former identity, replacing it with the hardened shell of a woman adrift in the moral hinterlands. Two decades later, a twist of cruel fate brings her face-to-face with an existential reckoning: she stands accused of a capital crime, the victim a shadowy figure who threatened the very existence of her estranged son. The profound irony, a dagger to the heart of dramatic convention, is that her own progeny, a burgeoning legal mind, is assigned to champion her defense in the hallowed halls of justice, utterly oblivious to the maternal bond that binds them, a bond severed by time, shame, and an unyielding societal judgment. Her desperate act, born of a primal urge to protect, now risks exposing the very secret that has defined her two decades of silent suffering, forcing a confrontation with a past she had meticulously buried beneath layers of ignominy.

Synopsis

Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her son. The son, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court.