The Ward brothers were four elderly siblings that lived on an inherited plot of land as impoverished dairy farmers.

One morning, the eldest brother William is found dead, supposedly by his brother’s hand. Rather than focusing on the trial, the film looks at how the Ward brothers live, plagued by illiteracy and poverty, while living in a shack with no indoor plumbing or heating. The brothers are treated as an oddity, with some of the trial coverage painting the brothers as incestuous hillbillies, while other perspectives paint them as simple, farming folk that want to be left alone. It’s a bleak and depressing film, and one that will leave you thinking…