Regression

It's 1990 in Hoyer, MN. Taking refuge at her church led by Reverend Beaumont to escape from her family of her father, John Gray, and paternal grandmother, Rose Gray, seventeen year old Angela Gray has accused John of having molested her. Both John and Rose were alcoholics, the reason his son, Angela's older brother Roy Gray, ran away to places unknown, and John's wife left him, with suspicions that John ultimately killed her although her death was ruled accidental. To repent for his alcoholism, John has since become evangelical. In custody, John admits to having indeed molested Angela, but he has no memory of it. In addition to lead police investigator Bruce Kenner, Psychology Professor Kenneth Raines is brought in as a consultant to perform memory-recovery therapy on John to bridge that gap between his belief and whatever is reality. Leading out of that therapy and a further discussion with Angela, Kenner and Raines ultimately come to believe that whatever happened to Angela was orchestrated by a satanic cult, something with which neither has any experience. Kenner in particular becomes more and more invested in the case, especially in feeling like he needs to be Angela's protector, and as such is arguably the most susceptible to the psychological aspects behind what happened to Angela.