The Unsteady Object of Hope

In an economically-challenged small town, several children are discovered murdered with the arrival of winter during a desolate January.

The savage crimes have lasting effects on the lives of eight unique individuals: A scuba instructor who retrieves the bodies from the water, a disfigured cellist who believes he understands who is responsible, an undercover federal agent who investigates the crimes with local authorities, a model whose daughter was the first victim discovered, a ballerina pregnant with her first child, a documentary filmmaker whose marriage is altered by the crime, an art teacher lost in the colors of uncertainty and a painter who is the father of a murdered child.

Connected through tragedy and circumstance, these individuals’ complicated lives become interlaced, leading to the unraveling of infidelity, lies and the delicate fracture of hope.