It is there that Josey (Charlize Theron) comes to make a new start, bringing her two children from a bruised marriage.

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With the encouragement of her friend Glory (Frances McDormand), Josey takes a job at the mines, runs head first into the brutish scorn of the male workers, and determines to do something about it.

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