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After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole officer. He gets a job at a lumber mill and starts seeing a coworker. Then his new world begins to unravel; as his past becomes known, he strikes up a high-risk friendship with a young girl and realizes that a man loitering near a schoolyard is a child molester prowling for his next victim.

Can a man truly outrun a monstrous past once the prison gates finally swing open? This quiet, suffocating character study tracks a paroled predator attempting to build a fragile new life while the shadow of his crimes looms over every interaction.

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