Higher Ground silent drama to give the impression that could go on forever, looking at the lives of the characters' takes place, piece by piece: No great beats, not the culmination, as even the story of the building. Adaptation of his memoirs this dark world, writer Carolyn Briggs (working in collaboration with writer Tim Metcalfe, and the first director Vera Farmiga) resisted the temptation to regard the story of her life leads to some viewers, the superficial conclusions. But at the same time it feels organic and non-personal information, in particular the results of 70 years in an environment where the clothes terrible and moral movement, is also the sound of the amorphous collection of different times in a row with a little organizing principle beyond of the identity struggles of the protagonist.

After a high school romance, an unplanned pregnancy, a marriage and a brutal accident power of religious conversion, a young couple (Farmiga and Humpday Joshua Leonard, both of which offer very successful performance) are at the center of a closing point of conservative Christians. Over time, however, faith falters Farmiga, his sense of belonging and the comfort of their community. His story is played as a sum of incidents in which dissociates from adult sister after a bad time, or terminated for minor breaches of customs of the church as "getting dangerously close to preaching" when speaking extemporaneously at a meeting of the church. However, while individual scenes are often painful, funny, or both (as separate POV scene Farmiga strangely, the men of his church endure uncomfortable tables of sex education lectures in a series of cassette tape) some fit into a coherent picture.

It is tempting to draw lines between, for example, the dissolution of the marriage of her parents and her problems with her husband, but the connections are not clear, and very often the film takes the viewer to understand their internal conflicts, and sympathize.

Between the Higher Ground feels like a low-stakes Welcome To The Dollhouse for adults: it is built on a systematic portrait of disappointment and despair, centering the loser looking for love and security in any form. But when the Higher Ground is less painful than a dollhouse, but is also less passionate. The only lasting effect will be a close relationship with Farmiga Free Spirit (Dagmara Dominczyk), who sees no contradiction between religion, sexuality, humor and a very deep sense of self. But when their relationship is its powerful and high bass (plus a leaden fantasy sequence, a couple is too scattered and disjointed feel makes sense), only one thread of the film, which is often so subtle and so precautions to ram home the message that they are not at stake no message at all.