"An exceedingly lovely, quietly moving drama about characters who feel like they don’t belong. Director Martha Stephens keeps her story small and precise"

Screen Daily
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Martha Stephens
  • USA 2019
  • 111 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

In a god-fearing small town in 1960s Oklahoma, bespectacled and reclusive teen Iris endures the booze-induced antics of her mother and daily doses of bullying from her classmates. She finds solace in Maggie, the charismatic and enigmatic new girl at school, who hones in on Iris’s untapped potential and coaxes her out of her shell. When Maggie’s mysterious past can no longer be suppressed, the tiny community is thrown into a state of panic, leaving Maggie to take potentially drastic measures and inciting Iris to stand up for her friend and herself.

Filmography: Land Ho! (2014), Pilgrim Song (2012), Passenger Pigeons (2010).


  • Director Martha Stephens
  • Production Kristin Mann, Laura D. Smith
  • Script Shannon-Bradley Colleary
  • Cinematography Andrew Reed
  • Editing Nathan Whiteside
  • Music Heather McIntosh
  • Festivals Sundance, Seattle, Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin Akerman, Tony Hale, Shea Wigham, Jordana Spiro
  • Source Prowess Pictures