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Wayward souls are often the prey of sociopaths. They either turn into victims or accomplices or something in the middle. Cult leaders from Charles Manson to Jim Jones have used the veneer of family and community to twist people’s minds into believing terrible things. They make it too scary to leave. The outside world becomes foreign. So how can one cope if they do get away?

Martha (Elizabeth Olsen, PEACE, LOVE, & MISUNDERSTANDING) is such a young woman. She flees from Patrick (John Hawkes, WINTER’S BONE) a much older man who leads a family of young men and women on a rural farm. She doesn’t really know where she is. The other members follow her. Watts (Brady Corbet, 2007’s FUNNY GAMES), one of the members, finds her at a diner and tells her to come home. He doesn’t force her, but the impression that if she doesn’t something bad will happen to her is strongly implied.

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