at first i found the lost daughter sickly strange, creepy in an unfulfilling way, and i wondered why do the characters act so strange, why do they watch each other warily, like befuddled and suspicious spectators, why do they act so mean and spiteful, and then it occurred to me that the reason it seems so strange and unfulfilling is it mirrors the traumatic reality of the land we're living in, where every connection is disintegrating, in our heads, in the culture of extraction and consumption, in the criminally controlled government enterprise, in the environmental devastation. it's about the resulting depression and disconnection and the welter of confounded emotions that consume us as we try to live in futile, fractured and exhausted world.