The Girl From Plainville is based on a spine-chilling real-life tragedy

Bringing you the story of one of the most riveting digital-age tragedies inspired by the “texting-suicide” case from mid-2010s in Massachusetts, Lionsgate Play has announced the release of The Girl From Plainville. Created by Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus, the limited series examines the real-life trial of Michelle Carter, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by encouraging her boyfriend, over text messages, to kill himself. The show, starring Elle Fanning as Michelle Carter and Colton Ryan as Conrad Roy III in lead roles, conveys the emotional realism and impact of technology and social media with strikingly effective treatment of the very modern question of persona in the digital age. It follows the Carter-Roy relationship in which both parties lost themselves in a slow-rolling and constant dialogue behind their digital screens, eventually allowing themselves to push each other towards tragedy.