On an isolated farm in what appears to be the 1800's, a family is ruled by their tyrannical father who preaches fire and brimstone, and their devout mother who demands obedience. Their father exploits their fear of a punishing creator, an existential threat of living beyond the confines of the farm. Caleb, the eldest, blindly obeys his father, but when the father brings a new person into the family, Caleb begins to question his upbringing, seeing his father for the hypocrite that he is. As he plots an uprising, pitting himself against his hell-bent father, he soon discovers that everything that has been told to him is a lie.