“It’s about the stories he tells those women. It’s about how he creates a certain self to suit them, how he makes promises to them about all the things they’ve been taught they need from a man. Protection, affection, respect. He tells them the same story society’s been telling them, in one way or another, forever. And then when he leaves them, he takes away so much more than their money. That’s what the Baltimore story is. And it’s important.”
