At the age of ten, Henry James Hermin, a boy who was conceived in a petri-dish and raised by his feminist mother, follows a string of Post-It notes in hopes of finding his biological father.
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The people behind it
Michael Sheen
Dr. Slavkin O'Hara
Toni Collette
Patricia Herman
Jason Spevack
Henry James Herman
Samantha Weinstein
Audrey O'Hara
Melyssa Ade
Kindergarten Teacher
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah
Frank Moore
Stan Herman
Paul Braunstein
Dr. Gunther Flowers
Hannah Brigden
Young Patricia Herman
Sarah Orenstein
Mother Herman
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Two young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society, Kaidence and Galilee, find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.
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When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
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