The young, naïve Dorian Gray finds himself alongside his friend and painter Basil Hallward, who is painting him. The portrait, through which Dorian first recognizes his beauty, awakens the curiosity of the cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. He convinces Dorian Gray that beauty is more important than virtue and leads him into a Dionysian life. Dorian Gray becomes deeply entangled in a vortex of self-destruction...