How do you maintain a marriage — and your own identity — when your husband has been sentenced to prison for eight years? That is the dilemma facing Ruby, the protagonist of Ava DuVernay’s elegant and powerful new movie. Ruby makes big sacrifices, giving up medical school to focus on her efforts to free her man and maintain her marriage. But is her husband the man she thinks he is? A powerful portrait of a strong woman contending with conflicting feelings of love, guilt and inconvenient desire, Middle of Nowhere marks the arrival of a bold new voice in independent cinema.