Cole lives in a rural town close to the Appalachian Mountains hit by the economic recession in a visible and palpable way: closed mines, small companies in bankruptcy, empty churches, unemployed young people, alcohol and drugs. One of those places that form the consciences of those who were born and raised there, for better or for worse: this is how Cole is an assistant in a retirement home, they show his love for the elderly in the community but he sells under the counter the drugs given to them by a system that otherwise does not care at all. The inhabitants of the town are divided between the God-fearing people who quote passages from the Holy Scriptures – including Cole’s grandfather, a pastor obsessed with Satan – and more or less overt transgressors who populate the smoky premises and the caravans parked for life in the deserted spaces...
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