Steeped in history and poised on the brink of change, Garner, New Hampshire is a town delineated by its Puritan ethics and its "Live Free or Die" mentality. In 1925, Garner’s economic prospects
are in decline and the town must court an influx of outsiders. Antiquated rites collide with modern obsessions and desires as this insular community is caught in a dangerous undertow of
secrets. Garner’s forbidding morality is ruptured when a young woman is found dead in a forest stream.