Lion Loose in the Garden tells the juxtaposed stories of two teenage boys, each faced with impossible situations of mind control and sex abuse. In Pennsylvania Dutch country, Owen McPhail turns to an estranged grandfather for help when his father commits suicide and his mother slips into a psychotic depression. But his grandfather turns out to be a manipulative criminal, and Owen must take desperate measures to protect his sister Josey from this monster. Running alongside Owen's tale is the acti