![]() ![]() It’s a set-up that reads straight out of the darkest of psychological thrillers, the rural surroundings – the seasonal changes of which Emily Ruskovich uses to great effect, from sticky summer days to long, lonely snowed-in winters – reminiscent of the mysteries of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks or Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake, but what Ruskovich actually does with her material is decidedly more daring. The girls’ father, Wade, is stunned – one moment, one act of unimaginable violence, and his life implodes each of his family lost to him: Jenny to a life sentence for murder May six feet under and June missing without a trace. May’s sister, eight-year-old June, “terrified of what is possible now”, turns and flees deep into the trees. In the middle of summer, somewhere on a forested mountain in the wilderness of Idaho, without warning or provocation, a mother kills her six-year-old daughter May with the swift, unanticipated swipe of a hatchet. ![]()
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