After years spent meticulously burying her tragic past, MONE’T BRADLEY has perfected the image of a Harvard educated superstar lawyer, who’s living the dream, successful in the courtroom and admired by her colleagues. But when a lethal enemy from her past re-appears in her life by chance, the flawless facade she's built begins to unravel. It's not long before her sense of identity is so far gone, even she cannot recognize who she’s becoming.

SYNOPSIS:

Everyone has secrets, but MONE’T BRADLEY (40) has been hiding entire lifetimes for over a decade. At first glimpse, Mone’t appears to be the epitome of power and success—a formidable senior partner at a prestigious celebrity law firm, commanding both respect and fear in equal measure. Beneath this well-crafted exterior, however, lies a much more turbulent reality. Mone’t’s true self emerges in moments of private agony—locked away in her office, consumed by rage, screaming and destroying her surroundings in manic episodes. These outbursts are only stemmed by a lifelong medication Mone’t uses, and her messes rapidly disappear at the hands of loyal bodyguards and a personal assistant who ensure there are no witnesses, or signs left behind.

Even Mone’t’s husband Brandon is unaware of her true state of fractured being.

But then two long-lost enemies’ reenter Mone’t’s life, threatening to expose the past she has worked so hard to conceal. The episodes become increasingly frequent, and Brandon begins to track subtle shifts in her behavior. Determined to maintain the illusion of normalcy, sanity and control, Mone’t now embarks on her most perilous double life yet. Navigating a dangerous web of deceit while striving to prevent her two worlds from colliding, she soon convinces herself that she no longer needs to be restrained by the medication. Gripped with conviction, she comes to believe that a final, violent confrontation with her past is the only path to survival, and release from a lifelong struggle with mental illness. This series explores the complex gradations of identity – the tension between images we project versus how we actually feel inside. Belle Masquerade looks at the ways in which the “self” is defined and preserved, through the dramatic emotional journey of one woman and the choices made by those who love her.