Overview

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her mysterious Caucasian daughter on a five-day journey through the bloody West to find a distant town's Faith Healer. The woman believes her daughter is possessed. The doctor believes she simply carries The Sickness. Either way the fact remains that every living thing the girl touches mysteriously dies.

Cast

Guy Pearce

Bender

DeWanda Wise

Sarah

Bill Pullman

Ross

Raoul Max Trujillo

Shakespeare

Ryan de Quintal

Hershel

Emily Katherine Ford

The Girl

Jack Alcott

Edward

Charlie Talbert

Cotton

Joanna Cassidy

Maggie

Josh McDermitt

Keith Jardine

Gibson

Andrew J. West

Sheriff Legsplint