Ted "Black Lightning" Patrick's practice of "deprogramming," also known as "reverse brainwashing," started in the early 1970s and quickly snowballed into a vast underground movement composed of concerned parents, ex-cultists-turned-deprogrammers and some sympathetic law-enforcers whose mission was to physically and mentally remove individuals from cults.
Sin saber muy bien cómo, David (Nick Mancuso), animado por unos amigos, llega a California y va a parar a la comuna juvenil de "los hijos celestiales", que pretende cambiar el mundo siguiendo unos ideales pacifistas. Aunque, al principio, David está deseando irse de ese lugar, poco a poco se irá integrando en el grupo.
Real life deprogrammers and ex-Moonies reenact one person’s journey into and out of the Unification Church in this compelling docudrama. Moonchild is an eye-opening glimpse of a religious cult from an insider’s point of view.
A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group.
A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.