Its final act largely comprises an extended flashback during which we discover the terrible circumstances motivating its protagonist's quest: the lynching of her parents by a white mob, an atrocity depicted with an unflinching brutality that's shocking even by today's standards.
But even worse is the evidence that has mounted ever since that this was not, as the state government pretended, a spontaneous response by the majority Hindu population to an atrocity committed by a Muslim mob.
The incident led to the removal of the entire Belgian contingent, emboldening the machete-wielding mobs to perpetrate an atrocity that the international community has yet to come to terms with.
Especially where mass atrocities are perpetrated against them by mobs or militia.
The Monterrey massacre was the latest atrocity in a war between the Sinaloa mob and the Zetas, which between them dominate Mexico's criminal map.
The flashes of the hideous atrocity sear your mind, and when the mob, still riled with blood lust, chases the car, your heart is in your throat.
What We Said Earlier: "In depicting the story of four high school boys who murdered a Mexican immigrant, 'Shenandoah' dissects the mob mentality of the small town in which their atrocity took place.
Photographs of the murder of another Mozambican man, Ernesto Nhamuave, whom a jeering mob burned alive in a squatter camp, led to declarations that such atrocities would never happen again.
Five years after a NATO bombing campaign put an end to atrocities by ethnic Serbs against ethnic Albanians there, Albanian mobs burned Serb-owned houses to the ground.
Over the past year or so, they've seen mobs attacking the American Embassy in Benghazi, Egyptian soldiers firing on unarmed demonstrators, and, of course, atrocities on both sides in Syria.
