Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman
staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical
Center.
After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) recounts
to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson)...
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Late one night in a working class New Jersey suburb, a bloodied woman
staggers mute and dazed into the emergency room at the Dempsy Medical
Center.
After treatment for shock and hysteria, Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) recounts
to Dempsy police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) — a horrific
tale of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides
Dempsy’s urban housing projects from the blue collar town of Gannon, where
she lives. She claims she was forced out of her car by a black man, but during
the interrogation Council senses he’s not getting the whole story. Only after
hours of questioning does Brenda finally break down and confess that her fouryear-
old son, Cody, was asleep in the back seat of the stolen car.
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