Nora and McCloud prepared the hotel further, by closing more window shutters (the downstairs area became very dark) and retrieving oil lamps.Although Judah is devoted to Arrius, and attains worldly citizenship, money, position, and praise, he cannot forget his homeland and his family's fate.I don't make any rules, Nick.I go with the flow.As predicted by Dr.Lamott, she admits that she would have to be stupid to write about killings that later materialize (the camera zooms in on her face as she answers):I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill somebody the way I described it in my book.Plot SynopsisBefore the credits, the film opens with a view of lonely 15 year-old Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek) playing with her pet dog on her bed, as she speaks in a voice-over flashback about how she was transplanted from Texas to South Dakota with her single father.