

In 1985, Ben plans to run away with his pregnant girlfriend Diondra. Urged by Wirth to visit Ben in prison, Libby's curiosity about what motivated him to kill their family prods her to keep researching the case. Though she still believes in Ben's guilt, Libby agrees to work with the club in return for much needed money. In the present, most of the members of Wirth's club believe that Ben is innocent as his conviction was based entirely on Libby's testimony. Meanwhile, their mother Patty learns that her farm is being foreclosed on, despite her best efforts. Ben hangs out with Trey Teepano, a Satanist bookie. He has a tense relationship with his mother, Patty, and his eldest sister, Michelle, who taunts Ben about being a loner. In 1985–prior to the murders–Ben comes to the breakfast table with dyed black hair. Lyle Wirth approaches Libby to make a personal appearance at his "True Crime" club.

In the present, Libby has made a living from donations sent by strangers to "the little girl on the news" donations are less frequent now that she is an adult and she is low on money. Responding to the police's leading questions, she says that her teenage brother, Ben, committed the crime. In 1985 in rural Kinnakee, Kansas, 8-year old Libby Day is the sole survivor after her mother and older sisters are murdered. The film was released in France on April 8, 2015, and in the United States on August 7, 2015, by A24. Dark Places is a 2015 American mystery film written and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, based on Gillian Flynn's 2009 novel of the same name and stars Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult, and Chloë Grace Moretz.
