Country Intrigue

It's the 1920s and the social constructs of middle America are going strong. A sheriff murders a young man under questionable circumstances, a woman seems to be drifting toward mental illness, a pastor pushes snake-handling onto his congregation and a judge wrestles with how he came to be a judge in the first place. There seems to be some palm-greasing going on and how far back it goes is anybody's guess, and there seems to be danger in trying to find out. At the core of the story is a love story, fragile at times yet lasting.