At the retreat, Shay and the other girls listen to sermons by conservative Pastor Seth about Lilith, who he portrays as lusty and sinful due to being created equal, and Eve, who he depicts as symbolic of women's weakness.

Shay also finds that she strongly disagrees with the retreat's ideals and methods, telling her cabin mates, one of whom is Seth's daughter Lacey, that they should exert control over their own bodies and sexuality.

At the purity ball, on the following day, an emotionally distraught Jo admits to a worried Shay that Kyle had known about her since birth, but deliberately chose to exclude her until now.

Lilith enters the body of a pleading Shay and uses her powers to control and then kill the men before setting the retreat on fire, stating that she's watched women suffer for long enough.

[3] In an interview with Deadline Hollywood, Macpherson noted that she was not aware of the purity ball subculture before Blumhouse Television approached her with the film concept.

"[4] Jahkara Smith was brought on to portray one of the lead female roles, Shay, starring alongside McKaley Miller, who plays her half-sister Jo.

[7][8] Elena Nicolaou of Refinery29 examined the episode's use of the Biblical figure of Lilith, which they noted had become more common in modern day media and looked to "[represent] a different model, another way forward".

[9] i09 noted that the episode's central thesis was that "Purity events aren’t for celebrating daughters, but for reinforcing traditional gender roles and men’s dominance over their lives."