Spolit, feckless Temple Drake

The daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye, one of the most grotesque characters of Faulkner's imagination.

A compelling, shocking tale

of perverted justice in the Deep South, Sanctuary is also a moving plea for courage in the darkest of circumstances.