![]() Once a doubting “sublimate,” Ruby experiences a traumatic montage of physical and psychological abuse until she is a zealot, unable to tell if she is a brainwashed follower or a fearful but conscious and conscientious criminal. Ruby, now “Heracleitus,” recognizes it as a cult but succumbs anyway. In this bleak commune/compound, the allegedly millennia-old leader, Zosimon, aka “Daddy,” preaches “elutriation” and exhorts the Boundless family to prepare for battle against the “toxicant” masses. When the otherworldly and childlike Fox offers her a water bottle and potential inner peace, Ruby follows him to the Institute. Guilt-stricken over her little brother’s accidental death, 17-year-old Ruby Jane Gilbraith is depressed and lonely, with a nearly comatose mother and (unbearably) pretentious poseur friends. A lurid tale of running toward-not from-a cult. ![]()
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