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After his mother suffers a stroke, Ben Hardin returns to his rural hometown to care for her and complete his most recent book. While home, his relationships with family and friends are strained and tested.

A curmudgeonly biologist and his stoner graduate students encounter a group of mysterious backpackers who disrupt their lives in surprising ways.

A young filmmaker uses his camera to transform the banality of his hometown into art. When a friend goes missing, however, his footage exposes a disturbing mystery . . . one he might be inventing.

Lucy suffers through her older sister's baby shower, but she cannot comprehend the painful memories the event dredges up for her own mother.

After relocating for her husband’s job, Patty struggles to find anyone or anything that makes sense.

A single mom from rural Kentucky travels to San Diego to sell her eggs to support her two kids.

The matriarch of a rural Kentucky family takes issue with her daughter's boyfriend at a gathering to view the total solar eclipse.

After a visit from the ghost of her grandmother, a writer secretly fosters the growth of a mysterious pepper plant in her mother's garden. As the seed bears fruit, she begins to question the choices the women before her made, and her own role in her family's lineage.

Claire struggles as the shock of her father's suicide ripples through her small Quaker community. Desperate to reunite with the only person who seemed to understand her, Claire reaches out to her father across the boundary of death.

Persecuted and hunted by Christianizing forces, young Deirdre and her clan eke out an itinerant existence in the forest. When the threat grows more imminent, Deidre's mother, Brigid, is led by a ritualistic vision to make a transformative choice: she offers herself as holy sacrifice. Many years later, Deirdre and her father, Orson, are all that remain of the clan. Deirdre and Orson embark upon a harrowing and hallucinatory journey to find Brigid, one that will lead them across the threshold of death and far beyond.