With her frayed blonde hair and moody coal-black eye makeup, rock band singer Marian (Alessandra Mesa) doesn’t immediately appear to resemble her identical twin sister. Practically a Stepford wife with her demure manner and neat brown bob, Vivian (Ani Mesa) lives with her loser husband (Jake Hoffman) in the same house the sisters grew up in. She’s stifled by her domestic routine of cleaning, gardening, and grocery shopping, but too meek to do anything about it—perhaps because that audacious, thrill-seeking part of her has gone missing, quite literally, with the disappearance of her other half some six years ago. 

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