Sister Wife
DoriAnn is a Mormon fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger biological sister.
During a private bathing meditation and candid interviews, DoriAnn explores the surprisingly everyday
challenges of her marriage, and reveals her struggle to balance her faith with her feminism, and her
spiritual ideals with her earthly emotions. As the film unfolds, the bath becomes a baptism and
DoriAnn emerges as a full-bodied woman: complex, individual and utterly human. When DoriAnn explains why she chooses polygamy despite the inherent anguish, her frank answer
about spiritual transcendence is universal and unexpected. In a time when the practices of Mormon
fundamentalism offer sensational fodder for the evening news, but little honesty, Sister Wife offers
a rare and unflinching glimpse into a private and often misunderstood lifestyle.