Heavily pregnant anthropology professor Belinda is frustrated with treatment by her department, sleepwalking at night from anxiety, and still grieving from the loss of her stillborn first son, Wallace.

Soon after moving in, Belinda begins to experience racial and religious microaggressions from Solange, who also carries a Daughters of the Confederacy certificate.

While praying one night, Solange seemingly spiritually induces Belinda into labor, giving birth via caesarean section.

Pastor Lewis stops by to check on the family, and accidentally reveals Solange had already paid off the mortgage of the house in full.

Stuck at home alone between caring for a frequently incontinent Solange and Laurie refusing to latch and crying extensively, Belinda begins having increasingly strange dreams and hallucinations.

Belinda, now pregnant with twins, drives to a job interview singing "Non, je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf.

At the interview for a new position, the dean asks her how she was able to deal with her previous situation; a flashback reveals Belinda smothering Solange to death.

[8] Filming took place in August and September 2022 in New Jersey, including at a house in Boonton, an office building in Parsippany–Troy Hills, and Fairleigh Dickinson University in Florham Park.

The website's consensus reads: "The Front Room gets some mileage out of Kathryn Hunter's memorably grotesque turn as an in-law from hell, but the scatological scares in this family squabble are more off-putting than frightening.