Longer synopsis:

Set in rural Utah, circa 1990, War Bride of Mormon County tells the explosive story of Trudy Thompson — a British immigrant and Mormon convert whose quiet life unravels when her seven-year-old daughter reveals she’s being sexually abused by Trudy’s father-in-law, the stake patriarch (a revered church elder). The horror? It happens in his hot tub, while he prepares her for baptism.

As Trudy seeks justice, she collides with a culture of denial, religious patriarchy, and a family desperate to preserve its status — even if it means burying the truth. Her husband wavers. Her sister-in-law urges secrecy. Trudy is isolated, silenced, and threatened — until she fights back.

With help from a fellow outsider — a Latina cop — Trudy hides her daughter in a migrant community and risks everything. The fallout is seismic. The patriarch dies. The marriage crumbles. And Trudy returns to England with her daughter — and her dignity.

Completely urgent, fiercely human, and at times darkly funny, this seven-character drama rips through the Mormon concept of “forever families” and asks: What would you sacrifice to protect the truth?