Gretchen is a young girl whose life is dramatically and forever changed when her parents move the family from their home in Rhode Island to the compound of an evangelical cult in upstate New York. Her parents fall under the charismatic spell of Pastor Joe, who uses religion to blur the lines between devotion, and a dangerous and intoxicating eroticism. Gretchen loses her parents to a seductive ideology, while growing up in an abusive world that justifies patriarchy through religious belief, and uses power to silence her.
—Rachelle Masters