This movie is a story about a forbidden love between two teenage girls. The story begins with Mary, who is in prison and blindfolded, being questioned by a local police officer about the crimes she is allegedly committing. Then we go into the not too distant past and find out the details of the case: Mary began an affair with her family’s maid, Eleanor, after a sapphic book was brought home. The idea that a book could drive a certain type of sexual desire to take root in one’s soul is ridiculous, but these are the thought processes of these communities, where the most important thing is to strengthen patriarchal hierarchies of control through intimidation and terror.