Sons of Perdition

Teenage boys escape from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound and struggle to find meaning in mainstream America.

Producers Jennilyn Merten and Tyler Measom discuss polygamy's exiled youth.

Watch the first five minutes of Sons of Perdition, the story of polygamy's exiled youth.

Trailer for the documentary Sons of Perdition. Sons of Perdition tells the story of three teenaged boys banished from their southern Utah polygamous community by Warren Jeffs, the sect s self-proclaimed prophet. Part of a growing group of exiles, the boys are condemned to hell by their community and denied further contact with their families. The boys must now survive on their own in mainstream America, which for them, is a whole new country.