An ambitious mix of folklore and family feud, To Sleep with Anger presents the powerful, poetic, and humorous drama of a contemporary African-American family and the changes that overcome its members when an old friend shows up unannounced. The catalyst for the domestic turmoil is the arrival of Harry Mention (Glover), a brooding, malevolent charmer with a boxful of belongings and a century’s worth of folklore. Like a character from the stories he tells, Harry magnifies familial conflicts, stirs suspicions, and brings the family to a perilous crossroads. Poised between mysticism and melodrama, the film muses on the complex relationships between present and past, good and evil, and on the enduring centrality of family bonds.