In The Minutes, Tracy Letts’s scathing new comedy about small-town politics and real-world power, the writer who brought you August: Osage County exposes the ugliness behind some of our most closely-held American narratives while asking each of us what we would do to keep from becoming history’s losers.

讲述了两个被派往乌干达的天真传教士的故事，在这里他们见识了贫苦、军阀混战、艾滋病泛滥的小村庄，人们甚至相信与婴儿交欢可以治愈疾病，在轻松幽默的表象下探讨着严肃而又迫切的社会问题。

本片是一个神秘的青少年黑色电影，聚焦一个年轻女孩在中西部农村地区的消失及其对青少年和父母的影响。