(person panting) (horse whinnies)
Whoa, whoa. You're okay.
You're okay. (horse whinnies)
(Serene grunts)
You're okay.
It's all a bad dream.
(truck rumbling)
(crickets chirping)
(hay rustling)
Can I help you?
Here for the job?
How'd you get here?
Well, I walked.
From where?
The road.
You've been sleeping outside?
What?
You homeless?
No, I'm just looking for work.
I'm a good worker.
What happened to your eye?
I was born with it.
Does it hurt?
Sometimes, I get a headaches
'cause of the double vision, but...
How many fingers am I holding up?
Three.
Thought you were gonna say six.
Well, most people don't have six fingers on their hand.
Do you have experience?
Yep.
Doing what? Animals.
I'm real good with animals.
It's mostly shoveling shit.
That's fine.
I need a place to stay.
I'm not picky. Just a roof.
There's a mattress in the barn.
Oh, that's great.
If there's any trouble, drinking,
anything like that, that's it.
Okay.
Christian.
Serene.
So I got the job, then?
(Christian sighs)
(insects buzzing) (ax clacks)
(Christian grunts)
(ax clacks)
(insects buzzing)
(branch cracks) (ax clacks)
(crickets chirping)
(ax clacks)
(ax clacks) (crickets chirping)
(gate creaks)
(footsteps pattering)
Hello.
(man whimpering)
Free us.
(gentle banjo music)
♪ How will I remember, I was just a girl ♪
♪ Pull my mother out the kitchen door ♪
♪ How she struggled when they kissed her ♪
♪ How the rain began to pour ♪
♪ Lay and bleed and how she cried out ♪
♪ Be you curse forevermore ♪
(gentle banjo music continues)
♪ Grass grow knee-high on your lonesome grave ♪
♪ How I pray for hours, oh, Lord, your soul to save ♪
♪ But there ain't no Lord in heaven ♪
♪ Only men and beast below ♪
(gentle banjo music continues)
♪ So I swore to you a promise ♪
♪ Be they curse before I go ♪
(gentle banjo music continues)
(pallet knocking)
What are you doing here?
Working.
No. What are you doing here?
I made some choices.
It's better for me to be alone.
(hammer knocking) (insects buzzing)
(insects buzzing)
(voices whispering)
(crickets chirping)
(voices whispering)
(engine rumbling)
(bag zips)
(blade clicks)
Christian.
(voice whispering)
Christian.
(doors rumbling) (insects buzzing)
Can you see me?
I'm here, under the skin.
(man screams)
(ax clacking) (Christian grunting)
(banjo smashing)
(Christian grunts)
Christian.
(Christian panting)
Christian.
You okay?
Huh?
Are you okay? Are you sick?
Oh, no, I'm just...
I'm really tired.
Why don't you come in for dinner tonight, then?
I'll make you something.
Okay.
Yeah?
Yeah.
(ax clacks) (crickets chirping)
(door knocking)
Do you have someone somewhere else?
What do you mean?
Like a wife?
Mm-hm. Yeah, I had someone once.
What happened?
We grew apart.
How?
Started hating her, little by little, so I left.
Lay awake at night, listening to her breathing.
Caught myself wishing her breathing would stop
so that it would just be quiet and I'd be alone.
And that scared me, so...
Do you like it?
Oh, yeah. This is very good.
Is it your recipe?
My mother's.
Oh, she still around?
No. She's buried up on the hill.
Hm.
What?
Nothing.
No. Say what you were gonna say.
Man, that's a weird place.
It's only women up there. There's no men.
That's my family.
That's not for you.
I found it by accident. I didn't mean to.
You didn't mean to?
I didn't mean to.
You don't take responsibility for much, do you?
I take responsibility for what I need to.
That's why you like to be alone, isn't it?
Because you're weak.
And I choose my own path.
Don't let me starve.
(voices whispering)
(shirt rustling)
(voices whispering)
(vest rustling)
(voices whispering)
I choose my own path. Don't let me starve.
Don't let me freeze.
(voices whispering) (Christian panting)
(Christian groans)
Please, only you can free us.
Please.
(wind blowing)
It was her.
She did this.
There's a gun in the tack room.
Two shots.
One for me, one for her.
♪ My love, don't you hear the river calling, love ♪
♪ Don't you hear the willows sing ♪
♪ Don't follow her into the forest floor ♪
♪ You offer her a golden ring ♪
(goat bleats)
♪ Oh, my love, don't you hear your mother weeping, love ♪
♪ Don't you hear the hound dogs cry ♪
♪ They cannot follow where you're going, dear ♪
♪ Through the valley across the ♪
(horse whinnies)
(knife rasps) (man exhaling)
(Serene humming)
(goat bleats) (knife rasps)
♪ Ever does the autumn harvest love ♪
(objects clattering)
♪ Over both your eyelids, sleeping in ♪
(Christian groans) (door rumbling)
(man exhales)
(equipment rattling)
(objects clattering)
(shotgun clacking)
(Christian panting)
Just like you wanted.
Do it now.
Come on, do it.
She's coming. What you waiting for?
End it.
Wait!
What are you doing?!
(both panting)
What did you do?
What is this?
It's a bad dream.
No, no, no, no. Don't, don't, don't, don't.
No, no, no. Don't.
You're okay.
No, no, no, no.
Don't, don't, don't.
It's a bad dream.
(Christian exhales)
(birds chirping)
(Serene humming)
(Serene humming continues)