In the American West, a sixteen-year-old girl sits, selling goods with her mother, when a local church leader, Stan Anderson, invites her to his sermon that night. The girl has recently undergone puberty, and she finds Stan attractive and alluring, so she says yes, despite her reservations about religion. At the sermon, she is hypnotized by the magic of Stan’s words. He speaks about the presence of Satan in the normative markers of 21st-century life: credit cards, insurance, and bills. Afterward, Stan invites the girl to pray for a man, Ed, whose mother is dying. After the prayer, Stan invites the girl to his room, where they have sex. Following that night, she cannot get him out of her mind.