When Emma, a young New York journalist, returns to her rural hometown for her father's funeral, she quickly begins to suspect that his death was not an accident, but a murder. She and the town Sheriff, a childhood friend, begin to carefully investigate the ever-mounting number of suspects. Competing farmers are fueled by desperation, hunger and poverty. Local gangs run fast and loose, terrorizing the community. Environmental activists are believed to blow up a tracker, or two, for their cause.
