Desirée

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"Based on a true story that appeared in a New York newspaper in 1980. Desirée lives in the past. A series of flashbacks expose us to her psychologically troubled childhood very much affected by a promiscuous mother. Her present life revolves around three people: her employer Mrs. Resnick, her lover Freddy, and Father Siego, leader of the church "The True Confessors." ... Freddy is an insecure black man who finishes their love affair with a sad note, Father Siego is the leader of a rigid, narrow-minded religious sect, and Mrs. Resnick is a racist, prejudiced white woman who feels black people are inferior and incapable of living their own lives. Rejected by all because of her pregnancy, Desirée blames her child as the source of evil. She is then "possessed by" evil and wants to exorcise it--the only way is to get rid of her daughter"--Container

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