Social worker Paula Jackson uncovers disturbing mental and physical abuses by a maniacal cult leader in this film dramatization of real-life events. Watch trailers & learn more.. A social worker (Polly Walker) investigates conditions at a strange commune presided over by an abusive leader (Luc Picard). This disturbing thriller is base.
The story of the short, influential career of pre-World War I French sculptor Henri Gaudier and of his intimate yet platonic friendship with a Polish émigré 20 years his senior.. Savage Messiah is a movie based on real-life events in Canada in the late 1980s, when social worker Paula Jackson investigated a commune run by a messiah-like figure who referred to himself as Moses.