A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life. When a young, unidentified woman is found dead by the lake - the victim of a brutal and violent crime - Walter, an aging small town police officer (Peter Stormare; Fargo), is called to the scene of the town's first murder investigation in decades. Haunted by his past, and hampered by the mistrust of the community and a state police officer overseeing the investigation,... he sets out to solve the murder, complicated by his ex-lover (Jill Hennessy) and his suspicion of her current boyfriend. As he delves deeper into the crime, his newly-reformed life begins to unravel threatening his relationship with Sam (Martha Plimpton; The Good Wife) and intertwining itself within the investigation and possibly the murder itself. [show more]
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A backwoods policeman investigating a local murder is pushed to the limit in this Canadian crime drama directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly. Set in a close-knit Mennonite farming community in Ontario, Walter (Peter Stormare) is a born again middle-aged policeman trying to leave his violent past behind. But when the body of a young woman is found near a lake by the lowlife boyfriend of his former lover Rita (Jill Hennessy), many in the community see Walter's investigation as personally motivated. Although helped by the moral certainties of his current girlfriend Sam (Martha Plimpton), Walter soon finds himself struggling to come to terms with his violent, repressed emotions.
Walter (Peter Stormare) is a policeman who was born and raised in a small Mennonite community, where he still lives and serves. Walter has a violent streak that he struggles to keep in check, and when he badly beat a man in the line of duty, his girlfriend Rita (Jill Hennessy) left him and many of his friends and family turned their backs on him. Walter has immersed himself in his faith to keep his demons at bay, and he has begun dating Sam (Martha Plimpton), a deeply religious woman, while Rita has taken up with ne'er-do-well Steve (Stephen Eric McIntyre). When the body of a woman who was raped and murdered is found in a nearby lake, Walter has to investigate the crime, and discovers that Steve found the body and Rita reported it to the police. As evidence begins to point to a man some see as Walter's rival, many of the townspeople lose their trust in Walter, and he finds himself stretched to the breaking point as he is torn between his duty, his reputation, and the people he cares about.
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