The little girl in the film, Sylvia, is fostered with a single housewife, Gertrude, because her parents are away on a business trip.
The housewife has seven children and the family is extremely poor.
When Sylvia's parents did not send the alimony on time, the housewife's attitude towards Sylvia changed.
The housewife's eldest daughter Paula told Sylvia the secret of her pregnancy, and Sylvia accidentally revealed the news of Paula's pregnancy out of protection and concern. So, Paula, who thinks that she has destroyed her reputation, maliciously destroys Sylvia in front of her mother.
Sylvia is a good girl—
She is kind and polite, never swears, doesn't contradict others, and has no bad habits.
And he looks sweet and friendly.
Shouldn't everyone like this girl?
However--
The nicer she was, the more disgusted Gertrude was.
Gertrude misunderstood men when he was young, and he was bullied by little men at his age.
When she learned that her daughter had embarked on the same path, her spirit was broken.
A raging fire of jealousy ignited in my chest:
Why does Sylvia get the love of a good man?
In Gertrude's mind, Sylvia is a seductive slut.
When she beat Sylvia with the whip for the first time, she was suddenly relieved,
She finally found an outlet to vent her hatred
She took her own misfortune, the misfortune of her daughter Paula, all the misfortunes of her life...
All blamed on the beautiful Sylvia.
Not only did he do it himself, but he also induced his own young children to join this inhuman abuse——
After asking Sylvia to shove a Coke bottle into her genitals,
Gertrude's children pushed the girl from a height into the basement:
Since this day, Sylvia has been struggling in the hell on earth in the basement.
They inflicted all kinds of brutality and abuse on her, and Sylvia became an animal in a cage.
The girl was pulled by a belt, burned by a cigarette butt, beaten and abused, dehydrated and starved, and locked up to watch.
Not only Gertrude's sons and daughters, but also the nearby children, came to participate in the abuse...
The boy who once loved Sylvia used a red-hot iron needle to carve insulting words on Sylvia's stomach:
"I'm a prostitute and I'm proud of it."
What turned man into such a beast?
The whole movie is too depressing, too dark, too hopeless...
But even more frightening
The movie is based on true events.
All the brutal scenes, the unacceptable reasons for the abuse in the film, are real.
Reality is even scarier than movies.
They rubbed Sylvia's wounds with salt, dish soap, and toilet cleaner.
They forced Sylvia to eat human feces and drink urine.
They didn't feed Sylvia, and the poor girl didn't cry because her body was extremely dehydrated.
After seeing the footage of Sylvia fleeing, many people were looking forward to seeing the final verdict of the group.
The rescued Sylvia returned to her parents' arms at dawn.
Under the leadership of her parents, she returned to that terrible place to rescue her sister;
But there was chaos inside, and there was a corpse lying on the ground.
It was Sylvia herself—
It's a bittersweet tragedy.
No hero, no reversal, no hope.
Only the cruelest reality, without a trace of gyration.
Sentences punish those who are guilty of conduct, but what about those who are morally guilty?
Parents who clearly know that their children are violent at other people's homes, but keep their mouths shut;
Neighbors who clearly realize that atrocities are happening, but do not want to meddle in their own business;
The sister who watched her sister suffer, but was so scared that she didn't do anything;
There are also parents who easily entrust their children to strangers and come back to pick up their children a full two months late...
In this case, everyone who showed up was guilty.
And it was the victimized Sylvia who kept apologizing...
Once morality is lost, human nature is numb, and there will be hell everywhere in the world.
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