The Eighth Day

John Ashley gets convicted for a murder he definitely didn't commit. It makes you realize how easily a whole town can turn on a good man.

“Hope is a projection of the imagination.”

The Ashley children have to reinvent themselves after their lives fall apart. They find ways to flourish in the middle of a total nightmare.

Some people are just born with a strange kind of inner light. Roger Ashley carries that quiet grace even when everything is working against him.

“Nature never apologizes.”

Small towns like Coaltown have very long memories. A single moment of violence can haunt several families for decades.