خلاصه داستان : زندگی با «شپرد» تنها زندگی‌ای است که «سلا» تا به حال شناخته است. جامعه‌ای خودکفا، بدون فناوری مدرن و پنهان در اعماق جنگل، دور از تمدن. شپرد نقش نگهبان، آموزگار و معشوق را دارد و تمام زنان گروه یا همسر او هستند یا دخترش. سلا با ایمان پاک بزرگ شده اما سرسخت و خطرناک است....

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.