What's swept under the rug rarely stays hidden. Taking place in 1986 and 1998 and based on a true story, three poor, Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence. They independently struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what's plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate, forever damned in Mississippi. Mabry's film is epic in scope yet intimate in detail with a large cast of richly defined characters, and every action has a consequence that reverberates through the extended family and across a decade. Bitterly honest, and profoundly subtle, writer/director Tina Mabry successfully captures growing up in a world where possibilities and opportunities seem to die in the face of suffocating realities and even glimmers of hope must be clinged to.