Confined women in a Southern boarding school find their lives upended by a wounded soldier, sparking dangerous rivalries.
Suspenseful and intimate. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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It stays inside its R, with moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence.
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During the Civil War, at a Southern girls’ boarding school, young women take in an injured enemy soldier. As they provide refuge and tend to his wounds, the house is taken over with sexual tension and dangerous rivalries, and taboos are broken in an unexpected turn of events.
There is a twist, and that is all we are saying.
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