The Passions of Angela Simmons
Synopsis
Texas, 2006. A former Houston Ballet dancer, sidelined by injury and adrift in sorority life at UT Austin, channels her longing for transcendence through the rituals of a debutante season, until her hunger to dissolve the boundary between self and world begins to overwhelm everyone around her.
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