After the filmmaker’s grandmother was held hostage, she shocked her small town by declaring that she felt more threatened by the police than by the men holding her hostage – and she wasn’t the only woman that year to do so. A thrilling piece of family lore intersects with the famous kidnapping of Patty Hearst and a dramatic bank heist in Sweden in this interrogation of the concept of Stockholm Syndrome.

Director's Bio:

Mimi Wilcox is an Emmy-nominated and ACE Eddie Award-winning documentary editor & filmmaker. She edited the 3-part Netflix docuseries Escaping Twin Flames (2023) and the 4-part docuseries Let Us Prey (ID/MAX 2023). She co-edited Kartemquin Films' feature documentary The Dilemma of Desire (Showtime, SXSW 2020) and edited the feature documentaries With This Light (Winner, Documentary Feature Jury Award at Austin Film Festival 2022) and Head to Head (Heartland Film Festival 2020). Other credits include the award-winning short documentary MnM (CPH:DOX 2023) and How to Fall in Love in a Pandemic (Tribeca 2021), which she co-produced. Her first short film, Alpha Mare, was a 2021 Vimeo Staff Pick.