Natural Selection

A devout Christian woman, Linda, lives in a sexless marriage with her husband Abe. It is his believe that sex is only for reproductive purposes and Linda is barren because of an abortion she had at 16. The father of that child would have been Abe.

While Linda practices abstinence (not necessarily voluntarily), her husband secretly goes off to donate sperm on a regular basis - and has been doing so for the entirety of their marriage. The reason she finds out is when Abe has a heart attack? aneurysm? while 'donating'. In a moment of consciousness, he mumbles something to Linda that she interprets as his wish to see his illegitimate son Raymond.

Linda takes off to Florida to find him and believes that she does. In fact, she picks up a recently escaped small time crook, who is laying low at Raymond's house and when the cops come to call he decides to go with Linda to meet his 'biological father'. He does, of course, try to take off at the first opportunity. However, this fake Raymond is somewhat stupid and passes out in some road house bathroom while someone else takes off with Linda's car.

Linda, all forgiveness, decides to continue on their journey. The start talking and telling each other intimate secrets and, yes, fall for each other. This leads to sex, during which the local pastor bursts in, trying to save Linda from what he perceives is an assault. And Raymond is off again.

In the meantime, Abe has somewhat recovered and the couple returns to their uneventful life until it turns out that Linda is not so barren after all. This leads to more complications.

Despite the somewhat disturbing looking poster, this has its sweet moments. I couldn't help myself but root for poor Linda.

6/10