Ella Thomas

Filmmaker Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) adapts Rachel Yoder's novel, casting Oscar-nominee Amy Adams as a woman who pauses her artistic endeavours to be a stay-at-home mum—a move into domesticity that soon takes a surreal turn.

After 11 years in a Mississippi state prison, Russell Gaines struggles to leave his past sins behind him as he returns home to his stoic father, Mitchell. One fateful night he meets Maben, a young mother with nothing but a stolen gun and a murdered police deputy to her name. Desperate and on the run, Russell and Maben must trust one another to escape their own circumstances, before the truths of their intertwined violent past threatens to destroy them.

Zoe Saldaña (Guardians of the Galaxy) is jazz musician Nina Simone in this rise-to-fall-to-rise-again biopic.