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Storyville Global: Leaving the Cult

04/04/2015 GMT

Leaving the Cult

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Documentary about three teenage boys who escaped from a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah.

Documentary about three teenage boys who manage to escape a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah. The boys talk about the extraordinary lives they used to live while part of the sect.

Leaving the Cult follows three teenagers who escape from the chokehold of the FLDS, a secretive polygamist sect located on the remote Utah/Arizona border. Joining more than a thousand other exiles, the boys must survive in the alien landscape of mainstream America without parents, money, or education. With access to private sermons, hidden photographs and inside testimony. Leaving the Cult delivers a stunning, unforgettable coming of age story that twists and turns with the speed and delivery of fiction but never runs from the truth. Go inside the heart of polygamy, religious extremism, and the narrow roads of escape, and discover three young men whose courage to think for themselves, has inspired audiences worldwide.

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