The Keeping Room

Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women—two white sisters, Augusta and Louise, and one African-American slave, Mad—must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army. Augusta, the elder sister, goes in search of medicine for her sister Louise, who has been bitten by a raccoon. She stops off at a neighbour's house but finds the neighbour dead, having drunk a bottle of poison. She then goes to a bar, where she is told to leave by the barman.