In the late 1800s, a light is shinned on a tattered family dynamic with a motherless home, an overbearing and emotionally cruel father with daughter and step-mother who hire a live-in maid that takes abuse from the father. The daughter and maid form a unique relationship while the father receives threats due to his wealth and social standing. The characters play out the story with those factors in mind and a string of pleasantries are not around the corner to say the least. The core of the plot is the daughter who feels degraded and under her coarse father's thumb and how she deals with her family situation. This is a well-crafted story with long takes, great acting, moody minimal music score accented with a muted color pallet. There are some very unexpected heavy moments at least in the way they played out. And by the end you learn this is based on a true story!
