Young Mary Katherine (M.K.) returns to her eccentric scientist father's home, but his all-consuming quest to discover a tiny civilization in the neighboring forest drives them apart.
CRISIS OF REPRESENTATION. This phrase was coined by George Marcus and Michael Fischer to refer specifically to the uncertainty within the human sciences about adequate means of describing social reality.
crisis - an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; they went bankrupt during the economic crisis. Dunkirk - a crisis in which a desperate effort is the only alternative to defeat; the Russians had to pull off a Dunkirk to get out of there.