A daughter-in-law stays to nurse her abusive mother-in-law after a fatal accident shatters the older woman's mind.
Eleanor makes life unbearable for Lucy, goading her son George into physical aggression. Margaret intervenes dramatically, destroying a treasured Bennett crock to announce her move into the home and shield Lucy. The two women lock into daily combat until George dies in a drunken tractor accident, an event that fractures Eleanor's sanity completely. Rather than seize the chance to leave, Margaret chooses to remain and tend to the woman who once tormented her, forging a new domestic arrangement from the wreckage of the old.
Motifs
Abusive matriarch fractures
Rival moves in
Enemies become caregivers
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