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The Length of a Rope.

Three sisters watch a small house in the midst of a vast grassland burn down; they have their arms around each other, but they are already arguing softly about their inheritance. They still have the family car; they plan to embark on a new life, but as they drive into the night, the lifelong resentments that have simmered between them rise to the surface. There is a sense that these hostilities may escalate – and, when they stop for fuel and a scream rings out into the darkness, we wonder if they already have.