情事2：朋友的继母

　　露丝·斯雷特（布洛克饰）因暴力犯罪被判入狱，出狱后的她重新踏入社会，但自己的过去却不被原谅。面对来自她曾经称之为“家”的地方的无情评判，她获得救赎的唯一希望，就是找到当初被自己无奈丢下而疏远了的妹妹。

　　Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.

　　1989年，位于宾夕法尼亚州的东部矿区麦诺斯维尔小镇，年仅6岁的小男孩马丁·布里斯托尔（蔡斯·佩哈切克 Chase Pechacek 饰）被人绑架。在此后的5年里，马丁身在何处？又经历了什么？无人知晓。　　1994年的一天，父母双亡的少女艾莉森·米勒（亚历珊德拉·达达里奥 Alexandra Daddario 饰）随叔叔乔纳森（迈克尔·比恩 Michael Biehn 饰）搬到麦诺斯维尔居住。这个出身大城市的女孩渐渐适应了这个偏远乡间的生活，也结识了帅气的男孩威廉（诺兰·吉拉德·范克 Nolan Gerard Funk 饰）。但是新生活的阳光很快退去，那幢废弃的农舍引起了艾莉森注意。她不知道，失踪已久的马丁也在黑暗中注视着他，这个男孩过早地见识了事件最为残酷与血腥的一面……