This film takes the viewer into Colorado City, where the largest known Polygramy group in America reside.
The photrographer was amazing in filming the area that is closed to outsiders, and shows viewers a town that is owned by the FLDS where women are treated like breeding cattle and children are denied basic education, food and clothing.
While the FLDS "religious" group becomes richer and richer, the women and children are forced to live under barbaric rules and regulations while surviving on government issued food stamps and disability payments. Women and children are taught that outsiders are evil, and cannot be trusted under any circumstances. The only education that takes place within this city is what the Profit and leaders allow, which is their way of brainwashing.
Girls are traded, sold and forced to marry whomever their fathers and/or church leaders tell them to. They are married as young as 12, and often to very old men who rule with an iron fist. Every visitor is watched and followed by the police force which is part of the leadership. The producer was able to film being stopped several times by their "police," and showed actual women who were brave enough speak out on camera.
In addition to the women, the sad story of boys who are killed or kicked out for minor offenses and sent into a world they are not ready for is mentioned, and groups to help those who escape are mentioned and shown.
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