| Plot |
In
a small conservative town, Jessie (Elisabeth Moss) is the
outcast teenager of a right-wing Christian family consisting
of a strict dad (Peter Gerety), an emotional and drunk mom
(Robin Wright Penn), and an innocent sister (Stephanie Gatschet).
Jessie Reynolds lives only for cigarettes, Jack Daniels
and her crush on a boy beyond her reach named Shane (Charles
Socarides). One night during a dance, Shane walks Jessie
out into the woods, and, after rendering her unconscious
with drugs and alcohol, rapes her. Jessie awakens with no
memory of the attack. When she finds herself pregnant, she
believes it to be an immaculate conception and that she
will bear the second coming, a delusion which infuriates
not only her family, but the entire town.
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