The story of the mental and emotional demise of aging southern belle Blanche DuBois, born to a once-wealthy family of Mississippi planters. Her downfall in the cramped French Quarter one-bedroom apartment of her sister (Stella) and animalistic brother-in-law (Stanley) is at the hands of savage, brutal forces in modern society. In her search for refuge, she finds that her sister lives with drunkenness, violence, lust, and ignorance.
