Baseado na história real que chocou aos EUA nação em 1965. Sylvia (Ellen Page) e Jennie Fae Likens (Hayley McFarland), as duas filhas de um casal de circo são deixadas para uma estadia demorada em Indianápolis, na casa Gertrude Baniszewski, uma mãe solteira com sete crianças. As necessidades financeiras de Gerturdes (Catherine Keener), obrigam-na a fazer este arranjo antes de perceber como esta obrigação, levará sua natureza instável a um ponto de ruptura, mantendo as meninas presas no porão de sua casa.
Very good performances from Ellen Page and Catherine Keener for quite an empty movie.
Could have been done much, much better with a proper direction and script.
Nice point of view of the torturers.
It'd be easy to just show them as evil demons having fun doing bad things. I liked how the script portrays what they might had thought, sometimes very subtle.
As the guy who had a crush on her and was rejected while she was still free, and later marked her. Paula who was pregnant and projected all her issues on Sylvia and wanted her to be seen as a prostitute. And Gertrudes herself who was old and ugly and probably was envy of Sylvia.
Such possible motivations were shown without stimulating us to feel anger for them.
