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Mary Fred
Anderson has been raised in an isolated fundamentalist religious cult that
believes the end of the world is near. She’s never watched TV, never
been to school, or never read books other than religious ones. Suddenly,
at the age of 15, her parents are sent to jail due to the deaths of two
of her younger brothers and she is sent to live with a foster family in
Washington, DC. Soon, Mary Fred finds herself torn between the beliefs
of her cult and all of the fascinating things she's discovering with her
new “family -- including daytime TV and a transsexual neighbor. As
she adjusts to her new life, she has a positive influence on the lives
of her new family and brings them all closer. Just as she seems to
be adjusting to enjoy her new life, an act of violence disrupts her new
family and causes her to confront the way she was raised. Without
warning, her birth mother returns and takes her to live in a new cult;
but will Mary Fred want to stay with her mother or return to her foster
family?
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