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Writer\director Asiel Norton takes the helm for this tale of the dissolution and rebirth of a rural American family during the Great Depression. Mary-Ann and her family live amongst the mountains, far away from civilization. Here, man and nature are one, and the laws of survival supersede the morality of modern society. Mary-Ann has taken a secret lover, and when the evidence of her affair becomes too obvious to cover-up, she forces a miscarriage. Fatefully, her father witnesses that desperate act, triggering a series of events that sends his family plummeting toward the unknown. His family starving, Mary-Ann's father recruits his son Job and local Charlie Mills for a hunting expedition, never realizing that Charlie was the father of the aborted child. As the hunt commences, Mary-Ann, her younger brother Paul, and their mother experience hunger so severe that the desperate daughter mistakenly kills her mother by feeding her poisonous mushrooms. Meanwhile, in the forest, the truth emerges, and Mary-Ann's father kills Charlie in a shooting he claims was accidental. Returning home with meat to discover his wife dead, the willful family patriarch suffers through the guilt of murder while mourning the loss of his wife. And he's not the only one experiencing acute pain and doubt, because Mary-Ann has been completely altered by the tragedy at home. Their family, as they knew it, is gone, and soon something strangely familiar will emerge in its place.