Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 erotic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on the 1926 novella Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. The plot centers on a doctor who is shocked when his wife reveals that she had contemplated cheating on him the previous summer. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of a secret society.