This is such an awfully difficult film to watch, but probably very necessary to show how useless the police and social services are.
Initially believing she has met the man of her dreams, beautiful Francine falls in love with laddish Mickey, and decides to marry him, despite seeing certain warning signs that he might not be as wonderful as she first imagined.
The Mickey she marries becomes aggressive, controlling, dominating and abusive to her, but she has no where to turn. Her mother believes it is her job as a wife to put up with it, and Mickey's parents don't believe a word she says about him. Every time she runs away, he finds her and blackmails her into coming back,, and when she has children hoping that this will placate Mickey, it in turn makes him more and more angry. Mickey is just the vilest man you might meet, and watching from the outside makes you want to scream at the tv that she shouldn't be allowing another man to treat her this way. Forget setting the bed on fire, he deserved to be hung, drawn and quartered.
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