Down River

Rhode Island, New England, the present day. A hurricane is on its way and the locals are preparing to batten down the hatches. Dorcas Mather, local librarian, is less concerned by the imminent threat than about a book that`s come in with the most recent delivery. It`s The Abigail Mather Story - a true crime epic which supposedly tells the true story of Dorcas`s sexually promiscuous sister Abigail, who`s now serving a life sentence for killing her husband. As the storm rages on, Dorcas reads, rages at the inaccurate picture of her allegedly `dysfunctional` family and the man who tore her sister`s life apart. Then she tells us the `real truth` about the murder...