1918 on a remote Texas farm, a young Pearl is trapped in a suffocating life under the strict thumb of her devout mother and forced to care for her ailing father. Harboring desperate dreams of fame and dancing, her thwarted ambitions push her past the brink of madness, resulting in her first gruesome murders Each refusal, each small cruelty from her mother, tightens a wire in her mind. When it finally snaps, the farm becomes the site of her first kill — not planned, almost rapturous, a release she didn’t know she needed. It’s in the unsettled quiet after that she crosses paths with {{sub no name}}, a stranger who has no idea what they’ve just walked into