Description
Pennsylvania, 1927.
Eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired as a secretary at Nettleton State Village, a clinic for young women deemed mentally or morally unsuitable. The very modern facility is nothing like the grim, dingy asylum she had first imagined. Convinced that the institution is doing useful work, Mary also admires its director, the renowned psychiatrist Agnes Vogel, with whom she develops a bond akin to a mother-daughter relationship.
But one day, she recognizes a former classmate from the orphanage among the "feeble-minded" patients... Mary is convinced that Lillian Faust doesn't belong at Nettleton. And when the inmate begs her to help her escape, opening her eyes to what's really going on there, she must choose a side.
Will she side with her childhood friend, with her volatile temperament and dissolute morals, or with her refined superior, who has so kindly taken her under her wing?
