1976, USA
Monte Hellman alumna Millie Perkins (most famous for playing the title role in George Stevens’s 1959 The Diary of Anne Frank) plays Molly, whose father was a seafaring man who molested her repeatedly as a child.
She loves her father desperately, and is acquiescent throughout the abuse out of love for him, even though she senses that what he is doing to her is wrong.
As an adult she mythologizes him, her adamance concerning her father’s moral perfection hiding her deeply repressed anxiety over her his incestuous transgressions.
She grows up to be an alcoholic, drinking excessively to quell the flashbacks that haunt her and living out a fantasy life in which she seduces and murders men.
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