![]() Towards the end of the film, Sam exclaims to Randy, “Because I think you’re the red in her painting” as he begs Randy to help him raise Lucy as her mother. Without them, the houses will not serve their purpose of protection and warmth. The patterns being the roofs of the houses may also signify that mothers are key component to the shelters of their homes. In a family deeply ingrained in a religion where parents are forbidden to express love for their children, the father breaks the chains of fear and oppression to allow hope, the expression of love and freedom to leave the Amish.Don’t the rooftops look like patterns of ladybugs? Earlier in the film, Lucy asks Sam, “ Are ladybugs only girls or are there boys, too?” she also asks “Do you think she’ll (mother’ll) ever come back?” This may represent how Lucy questions the coexistence of both parents/gender, but also longs for motherhood. The boy and his siblings are raised by a mother who cannot embrace them, praise them or even say I love you. The mother and father are deeply concerned since their strict Amish religion, teaches that any form of artistic expression is forbidden. In this story about an Amish family struggling with the upbringing of a boy born with an enigmatic mental disorder, they are gripped by fear and astonishment when they witness the boy has unusual artistic abilities. In this incredible story based on true events, the mother and father are overwhelmed with emotion when their children are severely bullied in a public school, and the father wants his family to leave the Amish. Is he truly the killer they're after, or is he being driven to become so?Ī film produced and directed by an Amish man, Samuel Wickey. ![]() Little by little he loses it, caught up in a paranoid identity crisis. Sam has become a target and he must now defend himself. Gradually, people begin to reappear and attempt to kill him. At the same time, Sam starts getting psychologically harassed by strange threats he receives on his pager. The host, a man named Eddy, takes calls from listeners who share their thoughts on a child killer at large in the area. ![]() Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a talk-show on the only local radio station. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. ![]() What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. ![]()
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