Following his first cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane, Orson Welles uses many innovative techniques to create this resplendent period drama featuring outstanding performances from stars, Dolores Costello, Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt and Anne Baxter. Isabel Amberson refuses to marry Eugene Morgan and chooses the weathly Wilbur Minafer as her husband. They have an only son, George, who spoiled by his mother, grows up to be vain and insufferable. After an absence of several years, Eugene returns, now successful, having invented an automobile. Wilbur dies, and Eugene, a widower with an attractive daughter, Lucy, attempts to rekindle his love affair with Isabel, but George interferes. This affects not only George's romance with Lucy, but also the fading Amberson fortunes...