She went to teach prisoners. Learned she's the one trapped.
A teacher in an abusive marriage takes a job at a maximum security prison, where she falls for a charismatic inmate. The disastrous consequences call into question not only the nature of punishment and retribution, but the very limits of our humanity.
Acting
Seyfried weaponizes fragility into something terrifying.
Direction
Nelson turns prison corridors into psychological traps.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds normal until it destroys you.
Director
Tim Blake Nelson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nelson wrote this during the 2018 writer's strike, channeling his own father's prison chaplain experiences into the script's institutional details.
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