![]() ![]() ![]() Ten years on, the reunion with Misha is painstaking, all politeness and pretence: “I used to dream of her smile – the way, I imagine, bottom-feeding fish must dream of the long dark funnel of a shark’s throat.” Abby is still recovering from her own school days, where Misha and best friend Kaycee Mitchell controlled a group of girls that made her life hell: “She left a razorblade taped to my homeroom desk with a note saying, ‘Just do it’.” Ritter is excellent on the cruelty of teenage girls out for blood. Running parallel to the main storyline is a compelling back story of high school bullying both past and present. Just who is getting fat from the proceeds is the ostensible plot of Krysten Ritter's Bonfire. ![]() Everyone from vice-principal Misha, the kind of woman who leaves her infant daughter in a car on a scorching afternoon, to former high-school hunk Brent, to the suspiciously tanned Sheriff Kahn, views Abby's return as an unwanted attack on a corporation that has fed their town for years. A decade since Abby Williams fled her miserable upbringing to become a lawyer in Chicago, she returns home as part of an environmental legal team considering litigation against Optimal Plastics. “Do a few rashes here or there mean we should shut down the biggest employer in town?” All is not well in the aptly named community of Barrens, Indiana, where the town’s economic heart – a plastics conglomerate – may also be poisoning its residents. ![]()
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