Set in 1950s England, ASYLUM tells the story of Stella Raphael
(Natasha Richardson), a restless, beautiful woman who desperately desires to find in romantic love the one thing that will change everything.
When her husband Max (Hugh Bonneville), an ambitious forensic psychiatrist, is appointed Deputy Superintendent at a high-security psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, Stella and her young son come with him to live on the grounds. Being in proximity of madness has a dangerous attraction for this woman; with its eerie, gothic beauty and endless echoing corridors, the institution itself seems to draw Stella in.
Then she meets inmate Edgar Stark (Marton Csokas), an artist confined for murdering his wife in a jealous rage. There is a visceral connection between the two. Stella finds release and a sense of herself reborn in Edgar
