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An attorney general is thrust into a campaign for governor when an opposing candidate becomes popularized by a religious cult whose previous leader was recently murdered. The attorney general's task of winning over the masses becomes all the more difficult when his son-in-law confesses to the cult leader's murder.

A sexually frustrated preacher becomes obsessed with a local wealthy woman, but she finds him abhorrent.

A middle-aged man watches his vulnerable older sister slip into the clutches of a religious cult.

A preacher is welcomed into a farming couple's cabin and performs an exorcism on their son.

Blood, sweat and bronco balls: a white East Coaster doesn’t know what life is like for Wyoming cowboys and part-Indians until he’s spent a day gelding. That’s castrating stallions, for all you white East Coasters.

Two young Mormons go on a mission to bring people to the Church. While one of the boys is determined to convert enough people to make district leader, his partner lacks confidence and persuasiveness.

While traveling door to door, preaching to her community, an 18 year old Jehovah’s Witness encounters a woman who makes her rethink the trajectory of her life.

In intense discussion a group leader ponders aloud, asking why hermits hide and what defines outcasts, among other cerebral queries. A group of friends discusses the oddities they have seen and perceived in their lives leather-clad hermits and criminal astronauts among them. They debate the purpose of hermitage, the classification of outcasts, and the purpose of their own reflections.

A father recounts a story to his son about his past life as a priest.

A boy witnesses his friend falling into hysterical killing spree of horses at a neighbors home, all supposedly for religious purposes.