Barry Poltermann

This documentary explores the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert. The former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter discusses how he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Ruppert expounds on his apocalyptic visions of meltdown rooted in peak oil, economics and covert...

As 24 year-old Flannery O'Connor is writing her first novel, she is already pondering huge questions of morality and humanity when she is diagnosed with lupus--the disease her father died from when she was a child. She decides to visit her mother despite their strained relationship, but her health crisis invokes a crisis of faith, and the lines between reality, imagination, and religion begin to blur.