The World to Come

The World to Come is a 2020 American historical drama film directed by Mona Fastvold from a screenplay by Ron Hansen and Jim Shepard, based on Shepard's 2017 short story of the same name. It stars Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott, and Casey Affleck, and follows two neighboring couples battling hardship and isolation in mid-19th-century United States.