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- Based on the true story of Leslie Wagner Wilson, trapped in Jonestown, a controlling, destitute settlement run by an increasingly manic Jim Jones, has grown increasingly disillusioned. Leslie's husband Joe however, has risen through the ranks of the People's Temple cult and, despite knowing of his wife's unhappiness, is determined to keep her and their son in Jonestown. As conditions at the settlement deteriorate, Leslie grows more desperate, and along with a few other People's Temple members, take a big risk for a chance at freedom, not knowing whether or not they'll make it out alive.
- Leslie Wagner-Wilson's harrowing escape from the murderous peoples temple cult led by Jim Jones comes to life in new episode short docu-series 'No Church In The Wild'.
- We start from the beginning. We bring you into Leslie's upbringing, growing up in a colorblind society and only realizing her blackness from the teachings of a white man who preached white people were the oppressors.
- A failed escape attempt turns Leslie Wagner-Wilson into an outcast inside of a spiraling cult.
- Leslie breaks down Jim Jones tactics of targeting black people, including her own role in that.
- Leslie begins to drift away from the church but is pulled back in when they take her son to Jonestown. Now she has to go or risk never seeing her son again.
- Leslie shows up in Jonestown, everything seems well, but then the red flags begin to reveal itself. From lack of resources, poor treatment to unfair distribution of labour Leslie is now aware Jonestown isn't the paradise it was sold to be.
- Leslie is tagged as a traitor and has to find a way out while being under the watchful eye of the community.
- Leslie is able to escape the morning on November 18, 1978 the same day of the massacre. The plan was to escape and then come back for the rest of her family.
- Leslie ties it all together and provides some final harsh truth and insight into this tragic event. She lists the people in her family who died and Jim Jones sinister plan to escape with only his elite associates.