AMERICAN WOMANstars Hong Chau (Downsizing, InherentVice), Sarah Gadon(Alias Grace, Maps To The Stars), John Gallagher Jr. (The Miseducation of Cameron Post, The Newsroom), Lola Kirke (Mozart In The Jungle, Gemini), David Cubitt (Siren, Shut In) Ellen Burstyn (Requiem For A Dream, The Exorcist), and is written and directed by Semi Chellas (Mad Men, Ophelia).It's 1975, and radicals in California have kidnapped a young woman, the daughter of one of the wealthiest, most influential families in America, and —incredibly —converted her to their cause. In an isolated country manor in New York's Hudson Valley, Jenny (HONG CHAU) is working as a housemaid, holding her tongue as her employer (ELLEN BURSTYN) comments scornfully on a live news report about the group.But when a mysterious friend tempts Jenny witha risky proposal, we realize there's more to this than meets the eye. Jenny is in fact a fugitive, wanted for the bombing of a draft office in the '60s. Ironically, she's also a pacifist, whose principled rejection of the Vietnam War has brought her firstto violent activism, and then into hiding, but now that the war is ending she's looking for a way to rejoin society.Recruited to help the surviving radicals hide out in a secluded farmhouse upstate, Jenny is caught off-guard by the ethereal Pauline (SARAH GADON), the kidnapped heiress reborn as a true believer. But the tension grows as Juan (JOHN GALLAGHER JR.) proves to be volatile, possibly violent, and Yvonne (LOLA KIRKE) to be calculating and unstable. As a tireless FBI agent (DAVID CUBITT) closes in,and the truth of Pauline's circumstances become clear, Jenny will face a watershed choice