[electricity crackling]
Fuck.
[tap creaks]
[house rumbling]
[train whistling in distance]
[quivering]
[girl] Mom.
Mom.
Hmm?
Electric's busted again.
Go back to sleep.
[engine spluttering]
[engine starts]
[radio presenter 1] ...the family and children--
[radio presenter 2] ...summer heatwave this year--
[radio presenter 3] ...recent spike in the number of child abuse cases--
"Train Man" playing ♫
♪ Train man Strap your boots on ♪
♪ Hops on Being Southbound ♪
♪ Berlin to who knows where ♪
♪ You don't know Where you'll end up ♪
♪ And as long as it's not here You don't care ♪
♪ 'Cause you'll know When you'll get there ♪
♪ You'll know When you'll get there ♪
♪ Train man I don't know how ♪
♪ You can live in this town ♪
♪ Walk the same old roads You walked before ♪
♪ Leave your wagon wheel spokes Trail of cigarette smokes ♪
♪ From here to New York State of Baltimore ♪
♪ Hold on to that handle With your right hand ♪
♪ And hold on to your hat With your left ♪
♪ And don't let go ♪
♪ Hold on to that handle With your right hand ♪
♪ And hold on to your hat With your left ♪
♪ Don't let go ♪
♪ And don't let go ♪
♪ Now don't let go ♪
And a pack of Kentucky Best.
Yeah, today. Before my kid nods to death.
[irritated] And a pack of Kentucky Best.
Sorry.
Can you do later than that? Like after 8:00?
[snaps fingers] And a pack of AAA batteries, too.
Okay, my mom will be there then.
How much is that going to be?
And a pack of AAA batt...
Can I get somebody who's gonna do their job out here?
[woman] Just to look?
Sorry.
Angie, who are you on the phone with?
Can I get that to you next weekend.
$60 is kinda tight for me right now.
You know what, forget about it.
Keep your shit.
Sorry, can I get that to you...
Angie, get off the damn phone.
In one more second, you are not going to have a job no more.
Okay, thank you so much.
Call me at this number if you need anything.
I'm sorry. It was an emergency.
It's always an emergency.
Anyone else was your manager,
they would have chucked your ass so far out into that street.
I'm trying here, Wyatt, all right?
No, you ain't. You ain't trying.
You've got to stretch outside of yourself.
Because this ain't working for me.
Wyatt?
Hey there, Angie.
Terry.
Um, this and, I'm gonna need some dip for Billy.
Um, we're out of that.
Okay.
Um. Hey.
You remember that pastor from when we was kids?
Pastor Stevens.
His wife, she got the cancer. Poor thing.
- It's awful. - I know.
God works in mysterious ways.
And for the ones working for Him.
But, they are doing like a fundraising thingy and,
you should come.
It will be fun. They're gonna have a band.
Yeah, gotta be watching Trey.
- Babysitter. - [scoffs]
I'm sorry whatever is going on, is going on.
Got to do what you got to do, right?
Think I'd be working at that craphole club if I didn't know that?
No, thank you, ma'am.
I see how people look at me.
[scoffs] Like being a dancer is same as being a whore.
But I make three times what the secretary do.
And I ain't embarrassed
'cause what they don't realize is,
they ain't using me, I'm using them.
$17.04.
[country song playing over radio]
You gave me too much.
[grave music playing]
[song fading out]
[man] Uh, just these.
[sighs]
[man] Miss?
[grave music stops]
Sorry.
[man clears throat]
You okay, darling? You look like a cat on hot bricks.
[softly] Yeah.
Just these?
[door banging]
What the fuck you knocking like that for?
Ain't you think nobody home?
- Are you Ruth Anne? - I don't know. Who are you?
Now, ma'am, your daughter called us.
Your electric's busted.
And I've been knocking for 15 minutes on now.
My daughter got the paranoia.
She thinks she sees shit she don't see.
Is this real?
'Cause it's every week.
Already with this shit.
[can pop open]
- You fixed it? - I'll be right back.
What are you doing here?
Ain't nothing to watch here but a crazy old lady.
Now go back home, kid. You're creeping me out.
Come on, baby. That's all right.
You go ahead into Nana's room, okay?
All right.
[instrumental music playing]
White trash piece of shit.
That cross around your neck,
real Christian.
Who are you? You can't judge me in my own house.
Who the fuck you think you are?
Why you think you got a job like this?
Idiot work.
Low life, stealing from people.
Piece of dog-shit, that's who you are.
Where you going?
Electric's busted.
- You gonna fix it? - No.
Asshole, who gonna fix it?
Nobody.
You have to get a whole new one.
What happened?
Did the electrician come?
Yeah.
Okay, you are not doing this in front of Trey.
He's the inspector.
We got a call from your electrician.
There's an emergency.
How long before it's fixed?
I'm afraid you've got to find some place else to stay.
This house is done.
Sorry? What?
What are you telling me?
Yeah. Can you see those wires?
That's a fire waiting to happen.
But that,
huh, that's black mold.
I don't want to tell you what that can do to you.
You need to find some place else to stay.
- Starting when? - Now.
Well, we ain't got no place else to go.
Listen, lady,
unless you want that mold doing some serious damage to your kid's brain,
I suggest you figure it out right quick.
[door shuts]
[exhales]
Okay. So, this is the playroom.
[softly] Okay.
This is the living room,
the bathroom.
Okay.
Yeah, it'll do.
- Seven hundred, you said. - Yes. Hm-mm.
Well, is there anyway, uh,
could you do any better than that?
Your ad said you are looking to rent immediately. So...
Mm-hmm.
$675.
That's great.
That's still,
still kind of a lot.
I work down at the Dairy Mart.
Yeah, well, we are not looking to lose money on this.
You're getting the whole house.
No, I know, it's just...
I can't afford that, right now.
Our house got the black mold.
And I got a little boy.
Can you do five?
We can do $650.
[sighs] It's just...
I haven't got that right now.
$625.
[sighs]
Okay.
All right.
- [Angie chuckles] - Cool.
You are lucky now.
- We had a week... - [man] Yeah.
...left to rent this place.
[man] All right. How do you want to do this?
Um, can I come back in a little?
Okay, that would be $1875.
I thought we just said $625.
Yeah, that's first, last, security.
It's $1,875.
[chuckles nervously] There's no...
There's no way.
[chuckles] I mean, we are not doing a credit check,
we are not doing nothing.
Can I get you the first month and then pay you rest off over time?
Mm-mm. We ain't a Little Way here.
I know. I am gonna have it.
It's just not, not all at once right now is all.
Miss, miss.
I can't have my son living out of my car.
I'm begging you.
Listen, we're not renting this for fun.
Unfortunately, you're not the only one
in a troubled situation.
I'm sorry.
- [woman] $1700. - [man] Maya.
That's what we need.
Look, you bring us that $1700, it's yours.
Now, we can't hold it for you,
but if you bring us that cash before anyone else,
you can have it.
[baby cooing]
Yeah.
Thank you.
Y'all need any extra help washing hair or something?
Uh, no, sweetie.
The girls that shampoo hair are actually in training.
What about, like, sweeping the hair?
Uh, it's the same girls.
[woman on phone] Hello.
[Angie] Hey, Karen. It's Angie.
We're in a bit of a trouble spot.
Wondering if we could come stay with you
for a few days.
Just while we are figuring out where to go.
[Karen] Honey, aren't there, like, services for that,
like, down City Hall or something?
Yeah.
You should see this girl down at the supermarket, Aunt Karen.
She's got a scar clear down the side of her face
from when she was at one of those places.
I mean, who knows what could happen to Trey,
him being so quiet, the way he is, and all.
[Karen] Now, I would let you...
[whispers] ...but you know that he's not going to let Trey stay with us.
Makes people uncomfortable
because, well, like you said, he's so quiet.
I was hoping 'cause this is a real emergency.
[Wyatt] They don't do that.
Maybe they might let me borrow against my paycheck just this one time.
- You know, they don't do that. - Can you just ask?
I don't make the rules.
I ain't got no way to overwrite them.
This is a corporation.
Thanks.
But, um,
here are
coupons to the table for some free meals.
I was going to use them, but, you, you take them.
Thanks.
Hey there, how many in y'all's party?
Oh, yeah, we a party, all right.
Just us three.
[Angie] Sit right there, baby.
[wait staff] Y'all enjoy now.
Excuse me.
Excuse me!
Something wrong?
Can I get a Busch Light?
I'll be with you in one second.
I'm just taking this table's order.
We have this table right now.
Ain't you sure you can't remember Busch Light?
We can wait.
Can you just please, please give me the night off?
[imitating British accent] You, arse. You are arse, girl.
Tell them I want the chicken francese.
[Ruth] ...I'm held up with disability.
All that back pay, I could buy Hawaii.
How's Bruce doing?
Bruce's doing super. He just built a new pool.
Well, no offense,
but I think that pool's look tacky
sitting up on the lawn like that.
No, no. They're building in-ground pool.
Oh. Excuse me.
Somebody got some money now.
That's right. I'm not complaining.
Is Bruce coming?
That son of mine, he just works all the time.
Everything all right, ma'am?
How's your sister Carol?
Ah, hold up.
We ain't even eaten yet.
Actually, I got to go, you know...
- Okay, honey. - Yeah, I'll see you later.
Okay, honey.
Okay, wait.
Can I get that hot dog?
Thank you.
Why you always got to have one of your episodes
right when I'm trying--
Talking to them like they're your best friends.
They didn't do nothing.
You don't go try, and sentence everyone all the time.
Coming?
I didn't mean nothing.
I said I didn't mean nothing. Come on.
Enjoy the hotdog, sweetheart.
There's something wrong with them, by the way.
- You know Tom. - He's fine.
So what do we got to do about the place?
I found us one.
Thank goodness. When are we moving in?
When we got $1700.
Jesus.
We got maybe a week.
Jesus.
He already proved there's a God or not.
There's a proof right then and there.
You drive me crazy.
What he did, he gets a pool.
What do I get?
Now you want to sue him?
Yes.
This happened when you were five,
so it's 19 years ago.
That's correct, sir.
You know, lawsuits like this can go on for quite a long time,
for years. It's not going to take care of your problem
in time that you need.
Um, can you just threaten him then?
Tell him I'll sue him if he doesn't pay.
This isn't the road you can go down, you know.
He took something from me.
Now I'm gonna take something from him.
Yeah, but it's just not an option for ya.
Kentucky law states
that you... A suit for child sexual abuse
has to be filed within five years
of the last incident
or, five years of your turning 18.
It was 19 years ago. You are 24.
It's one year past the statute of limitations.
When it happened to you, you only had a year
and a five-year-old's testimony isn't considered credible.
You would had have other evidence.
[sighs]
Hey, I understand, I understand that...
You understand?
You understand what?
You understand what he did to me
when I was five-years-old?
You understand that this is a monster we are dealing with?
That he just built himself a fucking pool
and I can't even buy my son a sandwich.
[crying] You understand that?
Angie...
Can I, can I have a glass of water?
[intercom beeps]
Could you bring in a glass of water, please.
Well, you could file a report on him.
And that way, it would be on record
in case he did it again. Would help someone else.
So, so he just gets away with what he did,
and I can't do nothing.
Well, not unless, God forbid, he's done it to someone else.
Maybe you can get him to settle with the two of you.
The water, sir.
Angie.
Hello.
Hi, um,
I'm looking for Emily. When she was little
- was she around... - [girl] Who's there?
[man] Somebody who knew Emily, but I don't know.
- [girl] Let me-- - [man] No, no, wait.
[man] You get too excited.
Terry, let me handle it.
Now, who are you?
Uh, Emily and I were couple of years apart,
but we went to the same Sunday school.
- She doesn't... - Why are you asking about that?
I need to talk to her.
She ain't here.
Can you let me know where she is?
- 'Cause... - [Terry] What she want?
What if she has--
Terry, get on out of here. Let me handle it.
[grunts]
Come on. This way.
[sighs]
Miss, there ain't good way to tell you this.
But Emily has gone and left this world.
Were you all friends?
Uh, no.
No.
I didn't know her too good.
No one knew her too good.
Still kinda picking up the pieces.
What, what was it you wanted to talk to her about?
Maybe I could help you with it.
[sighs]
I'm sorry.
I got to...
Sorry.
[children playing in distance]
[children voice fades out]
Angie.
Can I speak to you?
Well, of course.
Church looks real nice.
Well, we just painted.
So, we are looking spring-clean right now.
Yeah, it's nice.
Wish we saw a little more of you.
Yeah, um, I got lot on my plate these days.
Well, that's very thing God's here to help you with.
You are a pastor so I can talk to you about anything, right?
Of course.
- You know about Emily Winslow? - [sighs]
Held her mother right here in my arms when it happened.
I remember seeing Emily
outside in the back lawn of the church
after Sunday school sometimes.
You don't know anything about that, do you?
I'm sorry, I don't follow.
When I was a kid, I remember seeing some things.
There were some things going on in the back lawn of the church
with one of the moniters and some of the kids.
You don't know anything?
I certainly do not.
Bruce Watkins.
What about Bruce Watkins?
I saw him do stuff to kids.
Out in the back lawn.
If the Church had known anything,
we would have done something.
Now, are you aware of any charges?
- No. - Neither am I.
So, what are you after, Angie?
What benefit could you possibly get out of this?
Benefit?
He helped build those new pews
and that fresh coat of paint you were just admiring.
And now I know you are not here to pray,
so what are you after?
I need to see if there were other girls, younger than me.
What for?
So, he can pay for what he did.
I got to move out of my house. I got nowhere to go--
You are doing this for money.
- Angie. - [sighs]
I really think you need to consider praying on this
before you take one step further.
I've prayed plenty on this, Pastor.
Maybe He could have the decency to answer.
Look at you.
You are a mess.
You didn't get your bath?
Mom.
- Mom. - Yeah.
You are supposed to be watching Trey.
I am. I am here, you know.
He's covered in marker.
I asked him if he wanted a bath,
but he didn't say nothing...
[scoffs]
Okay, I am here for another five minutes.
I don't have time to boil the water.
I need you to get up now.
When are we going to be out of here by?
Yesterday.
Come on. Come with me, baby.
Here we go.
Okay, come on.
Bath time, okay?
- [Trey] No. Hm-mm. - Trey.
You got to let me, okay?
Please. Trey.
[sighs]
Please make sure he gets a bath. The water's on stove.
I need you to get up now.
Get up!
["Big Machines and Peculiar Beings" playing]
[singing along to indistinct lyrics]
♪ Do you hear The big machines? ♪
♪ All are peculiar beings ♪
- Where the hell have you been? - Sorry.
You've got to get a cellphone. Nobody could reach you.
Nobody got to reach me.
Well, I got to reach you. Your lawyer's got to reach you.
And why you got a lawyer? Why is he calling here?
- No, don't... - Wyatt.
You don't use this one.
There's office phone, use that one.
Shit.
[dial tone]
[secretary] Dyer Link for Improvement.
Give me Dyer.
[secretary] And who might I say is calling?
Angie Simms.
Please hold.
[waiting music playing]
- [Dyer] Angie. - Hello.
[Dyer] All right now,
There's no legal grounds for this,
so I really can't help you
but, if you want to pursuit it on your own,
it's kind of up to you.
People who are in your financial situation
almost never file civil suit.
But, I looked into Mr. Watkins, anyway.
And it turned up a suit between him
and a local family who got a daughter,
little bit older than you.
She's not young enough but it could be a start.
The case was dropped which could mean, geez, any number of things.
But, it was filed by a Miron Needham.
Kaylee.
[Angie] His daughter.
I knew her.
Your face looks exactly the same.
I was lucky, I guess.
My parents believed me.
They didn't have any money but, they didn't care.
They found someone who would represent me for free.
He came running real quick.
He'd do anything not to go to court.
Something like that can ruin you for life.
Paid for my nurses aid training with the settlement we got.
You don't remember anyone else, do you?
There was a girl few year older than us.
I remember seeing her around a bunch.
Emily.
Sad.
Pretty sure that kept going on till she was out of high school.
She was older when it happened?
Didn't stop with me till I was 15.
Age don't matter to these people.
It's not about sex.
It's about power.
You don't remember anyone younger?
That could be under 23 now.
I mean, there is a girl
but I don't know for sure anything happened.
But I remember seeing her around.
Pam.
You remember anything else about her?
Blonde hair.
Blue eyes.
There's a get-together I go to with some other survivors.
We talk.
You should come some time.
Got to survive first before you can call yourself a survivor.
Hey.
You don't remember that ring, do you?
With the red stone?
You know, it's been so many years but,
sometimes I close my eyes,
that ring is the only thing I see.
Just let me know when you are finished.
Thank you, Pastor.
[Angie] Hi, I'm looking to speak to Pam. Is she there?
Pam?
All right, thank you. Wrong number.
Hi, is Pam there?
Hi, I'm looking for Pam.
Is she there?
Hi, is Pam there?
Hi, I am looking for Pam. Can you--
Is Pam there? Pam? Pam? Pam?
She is.
Um...
Yeah, hi. This is Angie.
Yeah. [chuckles]
Um, yeah. I am an old friend of hers from high school
and I'm in town visiting and thought to give her a call.
I'm looking for Pam McKinney.
What time was your appointment at?
I don't... I am not here for an appointment.
I just need to speak to Pam.
Oh, okay.
Hold on just one moment.
Can I help you?
- You Pam? - Yeah, how can I help you?
Your father told me I could find you here.
We went to church together when we were kids.
I'm older.
I'm sorry. I'm at work. Is there something you need?
Is there some place we could speak in private?
What is this about?
Thank you.
I know how weird this must be.
I got a three-year-old.
And we just found out we got to move and...
Lady, I don't have any money.
- No, no, no, no, that not-- - Then what do you want?
You remember a girl
on the back lawn at church when we were kids?
Girl named Kaylee.
Or, or, Emily.
She was older.
Do you remember a man named Bruce?
I don't know but,
maybe you knew him.
Maybe you knew him in the same way like I knew him.
And, law's around here that
you could only do something about it
within five years of it happening,
or five years of turning 18
and I think you still got a few months left of that,
and it would be your last chance at doing something.
If anything happened and you were one, too,
and, in fact, it would be all of our last chance
at doing something together.
You wouldn't even have to sue him. We could just threaten him.
So, he'd pay us to not sue him and,
I don't know, you could do whatever you want with the money
and, I could get a place for my kid to live and,
we could...
[sighs]
...stop him.
So, you want me to threaten to sue him
so you could get the money to get a new place to live?
Yeah.
What the fuck is wrong with you, lady?
You think I may or may not
have had some sort of experience like you
and that makes us, what, blood brothers?
You have got something sick going on in your head
and I don't want no part of that.
Okay.
- This is my son! - Please! Don't!
I know it might not mean much to you
but you are living on the edge of a cliff,
and one thing goes wrong, one thing,
and that's what happened.
And I can fuck up my own life as much as I want
but I can't have my little boy being homeless.
So this is, what, your solution?
This is your plan to save your son?
Lady, I don't even know you
and you come here asking me
to pick away the scabs that I've had healed for a long time,
for you?
I got myself into school.
I got myself a job. Nobody did shit for me.
I didn't sit around crying about
what did or didn't happen or whatever.
He's just gonna keep doing it.
You know, it's real interesting
you want to stop him now that you need the money.
Would have been really cool
if you tried and stop him back in the day
before I had the pleasure of meeting him.
Fuck.
[door creaks open]
Why does it smell like gas?
Mom?
Trey, no.
No, no. Look at me. That's dangerous, okay?
Okay? What happens when Mama lights her cigarettes?
Do you hear me?
Okay? Okay?
That's dangerous. I told you. Look at this.
No, this is dangerous, okay?
Look at me. Do you hear me?
- [Trey crying] - Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay. I'm sorry.
It's okay, it's okay. Shh.
It's okay.
- [Trey crying] - Shh.
Thanks.
[Wyatt] Jesus Christ.
Angie, you can not keep doing this to me.
This ain't a daycare.
Wyatt. Couldn't find a babysitter.
[Wyatt] Did you just...
- Oh, my God. - [girl 2] What?
We used to have to play with her back when we were little.
[girl 2] It's so weird.
[girl 1] Working at the clinic store.
Like mama, like daughter.
[girl 2] Somebody has to.
Stop.
[girl 1] She'd fuck anything with a dick too,
just like her mama.
[laughs]
[girl 2] She don't even know who the daddy is.
[girl 1] Some trucker passing through.
That's disgusting.
How else do you think you get a black baby like that?
God, Geena...
[grunting]
Come on, baby.
Jesus!
Did you see what that crazy ass did to her?
[Wyatt] What the fuck, Angie?
Don't you ever come back here!
You hear me?
Go home!
You got to go to him and get the money.
- Go to hell. - Bruce.
[scoffs]
I tried a bunch of ways and now it's your turn.
[Angie] Hello?
If you weren't so wasted out of your mind all the time,
maybe the electrician wouldn't have ratted us out.
Okay, no, he didn't.
What the hell do you think happened then?
You better get yourself some sleep.
Okay, I don't have a job.
We are not allowed to be here anymore.
What do you mean you got no job no more?
It's not like it was paying enough anyway.
I can't afford all this on my disability.
You don't have disability anymore!
Yeah, I do. They owe me all that back pay--
No, you don't! They don't owe you nothing!
Oh, they owe me that back pain and I'm fighting for it.
You are living in a dream world!
My whole life, you are just sitting around pretending.
Thinking some other life is happening
and some big party out there for you to dance the night away at,
when I am in here, the whole time
and you never did nothing.
I put food in your belly.
I put a roof over your head.
- I needed you to be here. - I did that.
I needed you to see what I've been going through.
Maybe I could have gone somewhere,
turned out different.
God...
If it wasn't for Trey,
I don't think I...
I don't think I'd be here anymore.
Now, come on.
Stop that.
I don't want to hear that kind of talk.
Go to Bruce.
You brought him into this house in the first place.
- Oh, no, you don't. - Just thinking about yourself.
- Just wanting a good fuck. - Okay, that's disgusting.
I came to you and I told you what he did to me.
I told you and you told me I was lying.
He didn't do nothing to you.
He put his fucking fingers inside me!
You are always making shit up!
In the back lawn of that fucking church!
And in your bedroom when you were in shower!
Screaming for attention.
I can name three other girls he did this to.
- You just didn't want me to be happy. - I can name three other girls.
Any man I ever brought up, were never good enough for you!
You hated every single one of them.
- Well, I'm sorry... - Emily Winslow.
...that I protected you.
Kaylee Needham.
You didn't know what was going on.
Pam McKinney.
You didn't know what I protected you from.
- You were too young. - [Angie screaming]
You didn't know what I protected you from!
- [train passes by] - [casserole shatters]
[gasping]
You don't know.
You show up here pregnant
not even knowing what the daddy's name was.
I was there for you.
You think you got touched?
Once, twice.
Gee, hell, I got raped by my uncle for 15 years.
Please, you got off easy.
You know the last time I saw your daddy was?
When I told him I was pregnant with you,
he slipped town right quick.
And everybody told me I should get an abortion
even though they say they're Christian.
Tell me how fucked up you were going to turn out.
[laughs]
When I had you inside me,
ain't nobody gonna take you away from me.
I wanted to know what it felt like to be loved.
I had your love.
♪ Everybody is talking like They don't understand ♪
♪ 'Cause me ♪
♪ Is rushing down The drain on a contingency ♪
♪ Of all I am needing To do for me ♪
♪ Is call me back by name ♪
♪ And although The sunshine is blinding ♪
♪ And all your dreams Are dying ♪
♪ Your scary yesterday Is never coming back ♪
♪ Okay ♪
♪ 'Cause everybody Is laughing ♪
[song stops]
Miss?
You can't be sleeping here in the middle of the street.
Miss, wer...
Angie?
Everything okay?
Uh, why don't you just pull it in here.
I'll make you some coffee.
All right?
[engine starts]
I put some coffee on the brew.
Just gonna run up and throw some clothes on.
You need anything, like, shower?
Good.
Okay, then.
Uh, when the coffee is ready, go ahead and help yourself.
[floor creaking]
Oh, good. You got some coffee.
How do you know Wyatt?
Uh, his dad and I are basically cousins.
Wyatt's daughter is my goddaughter.
So, I think it's been
at least five years since you and me even run into each other, no?
Sounds right.
Good Lord, what happened to your hand?
Oh, uh, I burnt it cooking.
Oh, no. I... [stammers]
Well, I insist. That looks terrible.
You just hush.
That's my girl.
So, everything okay?
It's been a rough few days.
Is your mom okay?
Uh, yeah, she's, um...
No, she's, she's not great.
Cancer's gone, but.
Can't stop her from smoking, drinking.
I'm taking care of her.
Well, you gotta.
Give her my best.
I always just thought world of your mother.
You didn't got disability no more.
And, I only got about $40 to my name and,
we found out we gotta move
and we've got no where to go.
Well,
darling, I'm so sorry to hear that.
Y'all can stay here for a little till
you're back on your feet.
That's, um,
that's really nice of you.
I don't think my mom would go for that.
No.
You know how she is. She is
so proud. You can't talk her into nothing.
She can't even know I was here, you know.
Yeah, poor thing.
She never gonna change.
Well, that's our little secret.
I found this place and,
it can be a good deal but,
I don't got the $1700 down.
All better.
I didn't know where else to go
for help.
It makes me feel so good to know you trust me.
$1700, you say.
Yeah.
[exhales sharply]
Made out to you.
Yeah.
Angela.
It means the world to me that you came here.
I've thought about you all these years and I,
I wanted to be in touch.
But your mom went crazy.
I would do anything to help you, you know that, right?
Hm-mm.
Your mother was out,
God knows where till God knows when,
and she'd come home so strung out from the drug,
she didn't even remember your name.
And I didn't know what that kind of thing could do to you
so I stayed with you.
I protected you.
Remember?
Yeah.
[suspenseful music playing]
It's okay.
All okay.
It would be an honor if you could let me take you out for dinner.
We'd go somewhere nice.
There's a French place just opened up in Middletown.
I have a big heart.
But I want you to know that,
that I've never loved anyone
else
as much as I love you.
And I want a chance to show that to you.
See, in my heart of hearts
I've always known you feel the same way.
Angie.
What...
Where are you going?
I have to...
You don't want to go out for dinner with me.
I do. I would, I just...
[sighs]
Can we still...
Will you still...
You want me to give you the money
but you don't want to go out to dinner with me?
I just...
I don't have a lot of money, Angie.
I just... You said you needed it
so I wanted to help you out.
- I, because I care about-- - Don't!
[door shuts]
[screaming]
[crying]
[man knocking at door]
Hello?
Anybody home?
How can I help you?
Ma'am, do you realize
it's illegal for you to be residing in this home.
Yeah, yeah. I know we gotta leave soon.
No, you should've left already.
What part of "condemn" do you don't understand?
Okay, all right. All right.
Whose kid is that?
He's mine.
You have a black kid?
[Angie] Yeah.
What is it your business?
It's my business if you have a kid
in a toxic environment.
- Okay. - Is he still your kid now?
Yeah.
You ever heard of child protective services?
Get him out of here.
[Angie] Okay.
Okay, honey. Here we go.
Ma'am?
Hello?
- [Angie] Here we go. - Ma'am, I need you to wake up.
Who gives a fuck?
It's Sheriff Stevens.
I need you to get up, get your things. Let's go!
Look, I'm going to give you till 1:00 p.m. to get your stuff out.
Then we're boarding it.
[sighs]
♪ I saw God by the river ♪
♪ Panning for gold ♪
♪ I saw God by the river ♪
♪ Weary and old ♪
♪ He said, "Son" ♪
♪ I used to know Where I put things ♪
♪ " I used to know" ♪
♪ I saw God in the forest ♪
♪ Teaching tai chi ♪
♪ To the trees and the wind ♪
♪ And bound to the sea ♪
♪ He said, "Son" ♪
♪ I used to know Where I put things ♪
♪ I used to know ♪
Oh, Trey.
What are you doing to me in here?
Oh, God. Look at you.
What did you do to yourself?
Look at this mess.
We're suppose to be packing
and you just making it worse.
Why are you doing that to me?
I wanted to look just like mommy.
All right, now. You just sit right there.
I'm going to explain something to you, okay?
You listen to me.
You see this?
You know what that is?
Is that beauty mark?
Yeah, that's a beauty mark.
God gave me that
to remind me that no matter what,
I got a little bit of beauty inside me, okay?
But sometimes,
God, he'd make a soul that is
so beautiful and so glorious
that he just gotta show you on to the whole darn world.
And that is you.
You, is God showing off how good he done.
[Angie on phone] Hey, Lorraine. It's Angie.
You got a minute?
Hey, girl. Get your ass inside.
You remember Billy?
Thanks for letting us stay.
It's her place.
- Lorraine, I-- - No.
Already know what a good deed I'm doing,
I don't need you to confirm it.
Okay.
Got to looking you good. Get in there.
Show her what's what.
Seriously?
What time are you back?
[lounge song playing]
Ray.
This is Angie.
Who?
The girl I told you about.
Oh, Angie. Let's see your stuff.
Take your coat off.
Turn around.
Nice. Let's see the rest.
Take your dress down.
[Ray] All right. Turn around.
Turn around.
Orlo, you like that?
Oh, yeah.
I'll fix $20 a night.
That's okay.
Plus, you got to tip out Steve on lights and Jimmy at the door.
You are going up tonight, honey?
You ain't gotta go now if you don't want to.
You ready for me, Orlo.
[Orlo] Watch your step, honey.
[breathing deeply]
Right here.
How many guys want to see take her dress off?
[men cheering affirmatively]
Hey. Hey, hey, y'all, y'all.
Calm down, calm down.
Just give her some money
and be happy you got a hot new one
instead, one of those ugly ass ones
from down the street.
Oh, I'm sorry.
♪ I've always been Misunderstood ♪
♪ That I'm alone And I'm no good ♪
♪ If they only knew The way I feel ♪
♪ I've been waiting For something real ♪
♪ Well, can you feel The power coming ♪
♪ For you and me ♪
♪ I've been waiting for someone To take me ♪
♪ The way you're gonna love To shake me ♪
[chuckles] Money. Oh, my God. I'm making money.
I know.
Let's go. It's 6:00 a.m. I need some breakfast.
Lorraine, I can't thank you enough.
Well, you can thank me by getting your family off my damn floor.
My place ain't that big.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna get us a place
as soon as it all adds up.
No, girl, I can't.
Billy don't like a house guest that much.
You know what I mean.
You know I love you,
but you got to leave in just couple of days.
Oh, okay, I just...
I don't know if it's going to be couple of days.
Well, then you better start taking that top off
in the back room, little lady.
And how much longer they are going to be here?
What do you mean you don't know?
Two days! Two days!
- Now you want more? - I know. I know.
[Billy] Well, how long this is going to be?
I'm not going to live here with some old alcoholic
and this half-breed kid running around in the fucking house.
Would you be quiet!
Hey, don't tell me what the fuck I have...
Don't you talk to me like that, woman!
Hey, come here!
Why don't you just bring some more people to move in my fucking house, Lorraine?
Your fucking ASPCA.
- God! - Come on.
We are going to be late.
[Angie] I'm almost ready.
I ain't got time for "almost ready." We got to go now.
You got to give her a break. She's working--
Listen, lady, I don't need to lecture me about nothing right now, okay?
I was just saying she's trying.
Why don't you go out and get a job
and act like a good mother for once instead of telling me what to do.
I have been a good mother.
Oh, yeah, real good.
I didn't make her become a damn stripper.
It's more than you've done for her.
Waiting on some imaginary disability check.
It ain't imaginary. I am disabled.
I can't work.
You look real disabled.
- What's going on? - How does it feel
living off your daughter when your family needs you?
What does it feel like to be sitting there so damn useless?
You disgust me.
[door shuts]
[amusing music playing]
Hi, Brucey.
Long time, huh?
Drive.
[Bruce] What are you doing at Lorraine's house?
[Ruth] You know Lorraine?
[Bruce] Everybody knows Lorraine.
Angie got a job with her, you know.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Real nice office job.
Hmm.
Yes. So, I need...
Thank you for coming all the way over here.
I know he ain't seen these in a long time.
I know we didn't end too good.
- No, we didn't. - No.
We did not end too good.
Oh, God, we did not end too good.
- [clears throat] - You know,
I'm in the thick of it now and,
you know,
we had something back then, me and you, Brucy.
What are you in the thick of?
Oh, you are not going to believe it.
There's some mess out there on the system with my check
and, if it's not one thing with the government,
it is another.
So, Angie is taking care of her kid
so, now I'm the only one bringing in anything and,
you know, so I just...
- So, we out of the house now. - Hmm.
And Lorraine was nice enough to give us her living room
but, we can't be staying all on top of each other like that.
So, you know, I just thought maybe
I could borrow a little bit from you.
Just a little bit. I'll pay you back.
How much we are talking?
Oh, uh, like, um, $1700.
[chuckles]
That's a lot of money.
Oh, you know, I'm good for it.
I'll pay you back in a couple of months.
I don't, you know,
I'm sorry but I don't really have that kind of cash, just like that.
Oh, okay.
Um, well, you know maybe, I don't know, um,
you got a big house, right?
So, maybe, I don't know
we could stay with you for a bit.
Yeah, I don't think staying with me is a good idea.
It just...
I, I'm not sure that Angie really likes me so,
Yeah, right. Yeah.
Yeah.
- [sighs] - [seat belt clicks]
How are you, Brucey?
Hi, baby.
All right, come on, baby.
- What you... - You know about it.
- Oh, come on. - No.
- No, wait. - I'm going now.
- Oh. - Ruth Ann.
No, stop. Stop it. Ruth Ann!
Ruth Ann, stop it.
I ain't got nothing, Brucey.
I ain't got no home for me and the kids.
I ain't got no cash.
[crying] Nobody believes me.
- Hi, Brucey, hi. Oh. - Oh. Come on, honey.
- Oh, yay. - Oh, Jesus, no.
Ruth Ann. You are going to kill us. Stop!
No.
Look, I'm gonna help you all out,
'cause I just still care about you.
Okay.
But, but,
now you are saying you need my help,
now I need your help, too.
Just give me a sign, baby.
Oh, that's nice, right? You remember.
- All right. - Okay.
- Whatever you want. - I need your help, too.
- Whatever you want. - Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Oh, God.
[Ruth moaning]
Oh.
[both pants]
You know all these years I've been thinking on it.
And,
it wasn't us that were suppose to be together.
And it wasn't you and me.
Do you know what I mean?
[panting]
Pull over.
I'll suck it 'till you dry.
Oh.
Pull over.
- [indicator blinking] - [Ruth] Yeah.
That's right.
I scratch you and you scratch me.
- That's what you want, right? - Yeah.
Okay, all right.
Then let's just make a deal of it.
- All right. - Okay.
Next time, I see you around her,
same building, same block, it don't matter where,
'cause I'm just going to come up to you
and,
and I'm just gonna,
I'll slice your fucking dick off.
[door opens]
What do you think this is? A 24 hours diner?
You can just come in whenever the hell you want?
Hey, I tried to call. Nobody answered.
'Cause I ain't got nobody on the phone
'cause we can't afford it
just like we can't afford to have half our dancers
come in here whenever the hell they feel.
- I'm sorry, Ray, it was... - We got a flat.
And you are lucky, we are such good employees
that we left early otherwise we wouldn't be here even now.
Okay, just get this going, all right.
We got some blue balls old geezers out there.
Classy.
You got to take your own car from now on.
Okay, I'm sorry.
You know what, I really want to help you
but with your mom and the kid and Billy,
it's just too much for me right now. Y'all need to go.
Look, I don't have enough money but as soon as I do--
Angie, I can't.
[rock song playing]
[man whistles]
[cheering]
[man whistles]
[song faded out]
Lorraine, what the hell?
- What the-- - I got it.
I can't have my dancers walking around--
I got it!
What the hell is going on?
- He's here. - Who?
The man I told you about.
Do you know what this looks like on me?
I'm sorry.
You ain't got no money!
You can't just decide not to do something
when it ain't comfortable for you.
You kid is sleeping on my damn floor right now.
[exhales sharply]
I'm sorry.
You know what,
stay here.
Where are you going?
[inaudible conversation]
[panting]
You got rid of him?
You got rid of him, right?
Lorraine, I need him thrown out of here.
He said, "I'll give you $200 for private dance."
Are you fucking kidding me?
What do you want me to say?
Tell him to go fuck himself!
Go!
Okay.
[inaudible conversation]
Thank you.
What? What happened?
He said $500.
What?
He's fucking disgusting.
Fuck.
It is just a dance.
No, it's just not a dance.
Tell him he should go fucking rot in hell for what's he done.
Tell him!
Tell him.
Wait.
Come back.
Wait. Come back.
Tell him...
[sighs]
Tell him...
[sighs]
Tell him $1700.
[music playing in distance]
[door opens]
[music in distance continues]
[men chattering in distance]
[men talking indistinctly]
[sad music playing]
[music fades out]
[Angie] Here we go.
[Trey laughing]
We're home.
Why are we here?
[Angie] This is our new home.
- [Angie cheering] - [Trey laughing]
No. No.
There is nothing that you can say to me.
It's not about the job.
I want to talk to you about your daughter.
♪ All my rough edges ♪
♪ Un-smoothed by The grit of this town ♪
♪ Made from the rubble ♪
♪ Rebuilt from the sticks ♪ ♪ And the leaves ♪
♪ Oh, I'm kept, But I ain't clean ♪
♪ Learnin' how to run This fragile machine ♪
♪ Well I believe In preservation ♪
♪ Yes, it's fun to pretend ♪
♪ Don't you know? ♪
♪ That I am unfinished, ♪
♪ I am a Half-Made Man ♪
♪ And I need your forgiveness ♪
♪ To feel whole again ♪
♪ Just scraps from the floor ♪
♪ Propped up Casting shadows around ♪
♪ Looking for trouble ♪
♪ Lord, she ain't Easy to please ♪
♪ Where's my missing piece? ♪
♪ Lathed long and lean tattooed and serene ♪
♪ Yes she's worth the work ♪
♪ Don't you know? ♪
♪ That I am unfinished, ♪
♪ I am a Half-Made Man ♪
♪ And I need your forgiveness ♪
♪ To be fixed ♪
♪ To feel whole ♪
♪ To be completed, yeah ♪