The Atonement
The North Carolina Piedmont, 1864. On a lazy Springtime afternoon, two young Confederate soldiers, take off on a pair of horses for a short ride. Along the way they discover an isolated farmhouse and decide to help themselves to a pair of chickens. As they make their escape with the catch one is cut down by the blast of a shotgun. The farm's owner, a young widow who only recently buried her
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